Development and validation of a method for phenobarbital in serum: anticonvulsant pharmacotherapy monitoring

  • Palas Ateneia Dantas de Medeiros Hospital de Urgência e Trauma Dom Luiz de Gonzaga Fernandes, Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
  • Paulo César Dantas da Silva Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
  • Luana Pinto de Arruda Sales Instituto de Perícias do Estado da Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
  • Saulo Rios Mariz Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
  • Sayonara Maria Lia Fook Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), Campina Grande, PB, Brasil
Keywords: phenobarbital, drug monitoring, validation studies, HPLC

Abstract

The therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is an important strategy for the effectiveness and safety of long-term pharmacotherapy, such as the use of phenobarbital as an anticonvulsant drug in epilepsy. In this sense, HLPC has been presented as a technique for the measurement of phenobarbital in serum. However, the ideal conditions for carrying out the method must be established for each laboratory reality. An analytical method using HPLC was developed and validated in order to identify and quantify Phenobarbital in blood. The chromatographic conditions were C-18 column (Shimpack XR-ODS 50L x 3.0), acetonitrile-water mobile phase (30:70, v v-1), 0.2 mL min-1 flow and reading wavelength of 210 nm. Linearity was established in the range of 2.5 to 80 μg mL-1, the linear correlation coefficient was 0.9981. The average of the coefficient of variation of the precision was 5.30%. The relative standard error of the accuracy was -2.17% and of the recovery coefficient was 97.83%. In all eleven patients, phenobarbital concentrations were below the therapeutic range. The tested method was selective, linear, precise, accurate and showed good recovery.

Published
2020-08-17
Section
Research Article