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The poisoned patient : the role of the laboratory.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Symposium on the Poisoned Patient: the Role of the Laboratory, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on the Poisoned Patient: the Role of the Laboratory (1974 : London, England)
- Symposium on the Poisoned Patient: the Role of the Laboratory
- Series:
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 26.
- Ciba Foundation symposium, new series ; 26 (new ser.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poisons--Analysis--Congresses.
- Poisons.
- Drugs--Toxicology--Congresses.
- Drugs.
- Body fluids--Analysis--Congresses.
- Body fluids.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 325 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1974.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
- Contents:
- 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
- Formation of reactive metabolites as a cause of drug toxicity
- Separation and detection of unstable metabolites of amphetamines, analgesics and phenothiazines
- Evaluation of chromatographic and spectroscopic procedures
- 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
- An on-line liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer system
- Luminescence methods in drug analysis
- General Discussion I
- Immunoassay of drugs
- Immunological methods for detecting drugs: their application in the detection of digitoxin, digoxin and morphine
- Drug analysis in the overdosed patient
- The morbid anatomist's role in drug detection
- Drug-induced iatrogenic disease: the probability of its detection
- Limitations of haemodialysis and forced diuresis
- 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.
- Notes:
- Held at the Ciba Foundation 19th-21st February, 1974.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613693785
- 9780470720080
- 0470720085
- 9781280783395
- 1280783397
- 9780470717769
- 0470717769
- OCLC:
- 797918308
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