Handbook of drug monitoring methods : therapeutics and drugs of abuse /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dasgupta, Amitava, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to therapeutic drug monitoring.
  • Monitoring free drug concentation.
  • Analytical techniques for measuring concentrations of therapeutic drugs in biological fluids.
  • The pre-analytical phase of drug testing: from specimen collection to analysis.
  • Effect of hemolysis, high bilirubin, lipemia, paraproteins, and system factors on therapeutic drug monitoring.
  • Digoxin: so many interferences and how to eliminate them.
  • Interferences with measurement of anticonvulsants.
  • Pitfalls in measuring antidepressant drugs.
  • Immunosuppressive drugs: pharmacokinetics, preanalytic variables, and analytical considerations.
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
  • Pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine: issues and methodology.
  • Interference of heterophilic and other antibodies in measurement of therapeutic drugs by immunoassays.
  • Drug-herb and drug-food interactions: impact on therapeutic drug monitoring.
  • Toxic element testing with clinical specimens.
  • Alcohol testing.
  • Introduction to drugs of abuse testing.
  • Urinary adulterants and drugs of abuse testing.
  • Hair, oral fluid, sweat, and meconium testing for drugs of abuse: advantages and pitfalls.
  • Abused and designer drugs and how they escape detection.
  • Interpretation of amphetamines screening and confirmation testing.
  • Clinical false-positive drug test results.
  • Providing expert witness for alcohol and positive drugs of abuse test results.