IV Bolus Two Compartment Model

Fig 4.7.1 Slide of an intravenous bolus injection with a two compartment model. Often a one compartment model is not sufficient to represent the pharmacokinetics of a drug. A two compartment model often has wider application. Here we consider the body is a central compartment with rapid mixing and a peripheral compartment with slower distribution. The central compartment is uniformly mixed very shortly after drug administration, whereas it takes some time for the peripheral compartment to reach a pseudo equilibrium.

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