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

• Autore: Dasgupta Amitava <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.7/040724
• Soggetto topico: Drug monitoring
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The tools for detecting false positives, false negatives, and interference in interactions when testing and monitoring therapeutic drug use For physicians monitoring a patient's progress, efficacy of treatment is often linked to a patient's response to medication. Determining whether a patient is taking the prescribed amount, the drug or dosage is effective, or the prescribed medication is interacting with other drugs can be determined through drug testing. Written as a guide for toxicologists, chemists, and health professionals involved in patient care, Resolving Erroneous
• Titolo autorizzato: Resolving erroneous reports in toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring
• ISBN: 1-280-99834-2; 9786613769954; 1-118-34785-4; 1-118-34786-2; 1-118-34783-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807170403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II