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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Amitava, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug monitoring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613769954

9781280998348

1280998342

9781118347850

1118347854

9781118347867

1118347862

9781118347836

1118347838

OCLC:

798534225