Resolving erroneous reports in toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide
By: Amitava Dasgupta
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781118149652
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations; Substance Abuse Detection; Methods; False Positive Reactions; Drug Monitoring; Analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to tests performed in toxicology laboratories and methodologies available for such testings; title: Challenges in drugs of abuse testing; title: False positive results in immunoassays for drugs of abuse testing; title: True positive drugs of abuse test results due to prescription and non-prescription drugs; title: When toxicology report is negative in a suspected overdosed patient : the world of designer drugs; title: Abuse of magic mushroom, peyote cactus and solvent : no readily available laboratory tests; title: False positive alcohol tests using breath analyzers and automated analyzers; title: Role of laboratory in detecting other poisoning including pesticides, ethylene glycol, and methanol; title: Poisoning with warfarin and superwarfarin : what laboratory can do?; title: Plant poisoning and clinical laboratory; title: Sources of erroneous results in therapeutic drug monitoring due to pre-analytical errors, high bilirubin, hemolysis, and heterophilic antibody; title: Interferences in immunoassays used for digoxin monitoring; title: Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring anticonvulsants and usefulness of monitoring free anticonvulsants in certain patients; title: Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring tricyclic antidepressant; title: Therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressant drugs : limitations of immunoassays and need for chromatographic methods; title: Effect of drug-herb interactions on therapeutic drug monitoring; title: Pharmacogenomics and toxicology laboratory; title: Approaches for eliminating interference/discordant specimen in therapeutic drug monitoring and drugs of abuse testing.