An Evaluation of Initial Vancomycin Dosing in Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Table 1

Vancomycin half-life [1].

Age group	Half-life
Neonates	6–10 hours
3 months to 4 years old	4 hours
>4 years old	2.2–3 hours
Adolescents	Not well defined (hypothesized to be similar to an infant)
Adults	5–8 hours