Resolving erroneous reports in toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring : a comprehensive guide

Drug monitoring sähkökirjat
John Wiley & Sons
2012
EISBN 9781118347836
An introduction to tests performed in toxicology laboratories and methodologies available for such testings.
Challenges in drugs of abuse testing.
False positive results in immunoassays for drugs of abuse testing.
True positive drugs of abuse test results due to prescription and non-prescription drugs.
When toxicology report is negative in a suspected overdosed patient : the world of designer drugs.
Abuse of magic mushroom, peyote cactus and solvent : no readily available laboratory tests.
False positive alcohol tests using breath analyzers and automated analyzers.
Role of laboratory in detecting other poisoning including pesticides, ethylene glycol, and methanol.
Poisoning with warfarin and superwarfarin : what laboratory can do?.
Plant poisoning and clinical laboratory.
Sources of erroneous results in therapeutic drug monitoring due to pre-analytical errors, high bilirubin, hemolysis, and heterophilic antibody.
Interferences in immunoassays used for digoxin monitoring.
Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring anticonvulsants and usefulness of monitoring free anticonvulsants in certain patients.
Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring tricyclic antidepressant.
Therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressant drugs : limitations of immunoassays and need for chromatographic methods.
Effect of drug-herb interactions on therapeutic drug monitoring.
Pharmacogenomics and toxicology laboratory.
Approaches for eliminating interference/discordant specimen in therapeutic drug monitoring and drugs of abuse testing.
Challenges in drugs of abuse testing.
False positive results in immunoassays for drugs of abuse testing.
True positive drugs of abuse test results due to prescription and non-prescription drugs.
When toxicology report is negative in a suspected overdosed patient : the world of designer drugs.
Abuse of magic mushroom, peyote cactus and solvent : no readily available laboratory tests.
False positive alcohol tests using breath analyzers and automated analyzers.
Role of laboratory in detecting other poisoning including pesticides, ethylene glycol, and methanol.
Poisoning with warfarin and superwarfarin : what laboratory can do?.
Plant poisoning and clinical laboratory.
Sources of erroneous results in therapeutic drug monitoring due to pre-analytical errors, high bilirubin, hemolysis, and heterophilic antibody.
Interferences in immunoassays used for digoxin monitoring.
Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring anticonvulsants and usefulness of monitoring free anticonvulsants in certain patients.
Interferences in immunoassays used for monitoring tricyclic antidepressant.
Therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressant drugs : limitations of immunoassays and need for chromatographic methods.
Effect of drug-herb interactions on therapeutic drug monitoring.
Pharmacogenomics and toxicology laboratory.
Approaches for eliminating interference/discordant specimen in therapeutic drug monitoring and drugs of abuse testing.
