The poisoned patient : the role of the laboratory

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 1974
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 325 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 615.9/07
• Soggetto topico: Poisons - Analysis; Drugs - Toxicology; Body fluids - Analysis
• Note generali: Held at the Ciba Foundation 19th-21st February, 1974.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- The Poisoned Patient: the role of the laboratory -- Contents -- Chairman's introduction -- The clinician's requirements from the laboratory in the treatment of the acutely poisoned patient -- Discussion -- The role of the laboratory in the treatment of narcotic poisoning -- Discussion -- Formation of reactive metabolites as a cause of drug toxicity -- Discussion -- Separation and detection of unstable metabolites of amphetamines, analgesics and phenothiazines -- Discussion -- Evaluation of chromatographic and spectroscopic procedures -- Discussion -- Use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in toxicological analysis -- Determination of cannabis components in blood -- Discussion of the two preceding papers -- Drug assay by radioactive reagents -- Discussion -- An on-line liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer system -- Discussion -- Luminescence methods in drug analysis -- Discussion -- General Discussion I -- Immunoassay of drugs -- Immunological methods for detecting drugs: their application in the detection of digitoxin, digoxin and morphine -- Discussion of the two preceding papers -- Drug analysis in the overdosed patient -- Discussion -- The morbid anatomist's role in drug detection -- Discussion -- Drug-induced iatrogenic disease: the probability of its detection -- Discussion -- Limitations of haemodialysis and forced diuresis -- Discussion -- The poisoned patient: the clinician and the laboratory -- General Discussion II -- Precise analytical techniques -- Simple screening tests -- Research and its consequences -- Drug levels and individual variations -- Reporting the effectiveness of treatment -- Multiple drug abuse -- Screening for industrial chemicals -- Emergency toxicology: chemical requirements -- What the laboratory can do -- Other work of the laboratory -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.
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• Titolo autorizzato: The poisoned patient
• ISBN: 9786613693785; 9780470720080; 0470720085; 9781280783395; 1280783397; 9780470717769; 0470717769
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812000703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; new ser. 26.