Handbook of drug monitoring methods : therapeutics and drugs of abuse /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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.