Clinical toxicology testing
Subtitle: a guide for laboratory professionals
By: edited by Barbarajean Magnani ... [et al.].
Contributors: College of American Pathologists
Publisher: CAP Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Northfield, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780983706816
Subjects: Substance Abuse Detection; Toxicity Tests; Toxicity testing; Drug Toxicity; Clinical Laboratory Techniques; Methods
Description: This book is a practical guide to setting up, overseeing, and directing hospital toxicology laboratory operations. It focuses on the complex issues facing the laboratory director or pathologist in this role, as well as those in training in the field of laboratory medicine. It addresses not only pharmacological principles, testing menus, and methodologies, but also clinical test interpretation for specialized areas such as the emergency department, the pain clinic, and the autopsy suite. In addition, it serves as an introduction to such topics as workplace drug testing and relevant regulatory issues. It provides the reader with a comprehensive view of what is needed--and expected--when offering a clinical toxicology service --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and organizational aspects of a hospital toxicology laboratory; title: Supporting the emergency department; title: Supporting the pain service; title: Biomonitoring of medical professional substance abuse : practical and analytical issues; title: Workplace drug testing and the role of the medical review officer; title: The hospital autopsy and toxicology testing; title: Regulatory issues of toxicology laboratory operations; title: Adverse drug events, poisonings, and abuse; title: Alternate specimens for drugs-of-abuse testing : preanalytical and interpretative considerations; title: Analytical methodologies for the toxicology laboratory; title: Ethanol; title: Cannabis; title: Cocaine; title: Amphetamines; title: Barbiturates; title: Benzodiazepines; title: Opioids 1 : opiates; title: Opioids 2 : synthetic opioids; title: Opioids 3 : synthetic opioids continued (methadone and buprenorphine); title: Phencyclidine; title: Club drugs (GHB, DXM, MDMA); title: Over-the-counter analgesics; title: Non-ethanol volatiles and ethylene glycol; title: lead and other toxic metals; title: Common household and environmental toxins (carbon monoxide, cyanide, organophosphates, warfarins); title: Pharmacokinetic concepts for toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring; title: Clinical usefulness of monitoring free (unbound) concentrations of therapeutic drugs; title: Pharmacogenomic testing and the future of hospital toxicology.