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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Pharmacol. 2016 Feb 22;56(8):1009–1018. doi: 10.1002/jcph.696

Table 1. Summary of Previously Published Morphine IV Models.

Publication Demographics PK Model Parameterization
Bouwmeester4 Number of subjects: 184
Number of samples: 1856
Mean age: 195 (range: 0-1070) days
Mean body weight: 5.9 (range: 1.9-16.8) kg
1-Compartment Model
tvCL=CLstd(Wt70)0.75PMAHillCLPMAHillCL+CLmat50HillCLLiter/hour

tvV1=V1std(Wt70)(1+βvolePNALn(2)Tvol)Liter
Holford5 Number of subjects: 875
Number of samples: 1598
PNA: 0.27 (SD: 0.26, range: 0–2.84) weeks, PMA: 27.35 (SD: 2.31, range: 23–32) weeks
Body weight: 1.04 (SD: 0.35, range: 0.42–2.44) kg
with data from Bouwmeester4
2-Compartment Model
tvCL=CLstd(Wt70)0.75PMAHillCLPMAHillCL+CLmat50HillCLLiter/hour

tvV1=V1std(Wt70)(1+βvolePNALn(2)Tvol)Liter

tvQ2=Q2std(Wt70)0.75Liter/hour

tvV2=V2std(Wt70)(1+βvolePNALn(2)Tvol)Liter
Knibbe7 Number of subjects: 248
Number of samples: 792
Median body weight: 3.58kg (25–75 percentile: 2.2 - 7.0);
Median PNA: 33 (25–75 percentile: 0.95 - 203) days
Median PMA: 41.9 (25–75 percentile: 35.6 - 62.6) weeks
2-Compartment Model tvCL = CLstd•(Wt)1.44 Liter/hour
tvV1 = V1std•(Wt)Liter
tvQ2 = Q2std Liter/hour
tvV2 = V2std•(Wt)Liter
Wang8 Number of subjects: 475
Number of samples: 9494
Body weight range: 0.56-85 kg
Age range: 0.1 days-36 years
2-Compartment Model
tvCL=CLstd(Wt70)kLiter/hour

k=k0kmaxWt4.62k504.62+Wt4.62

tvV1=V1std(Wt70)Liter

tvQ2=Q2std(Wt70)Liter/hour

tvV2=V2std(Wt70)Liter
Lotsch Number of subjects: 8
Number of samples: 152
Mean PNA: 26.4 years
Mean body weight: 70.5 kg
3-Compartment Model (No body weight, PMA and PNA was used for parameterization)

PMA: post menstrual age

PNA: post-natal age