Procedures to determine overdosage or poisoning include: colorimetry, visible and ultraviolet spectrophotometry, mass and atomic absorption spectrometry, flame photometry, ion-specific potentiometry, graphite furnace atomic absorption, liquid chromatography and thin layer chromatography. Gas chromatography procedures include flame ionization, electron capture, nitrogen specific, and thermal conductivity.

This is the second edition of a popular laboratory procedures manual first published in 1980. The volume retains the same format as the original work. Drugs or classes of drugs commonly analyzed for in therapeutic monitoring or clinical toxicology are indexed in alpha-betical order with one or more specific procedures for their analysis in blood, plasma, serum, and/or urine presented. Each procedure includes: the principle of the method, necessary reagents and their preparation, instrumental conditions, extraction protocol, calculation of results, performance characteristics, and possible interferences with the assay. The directions are well written, clear, concise, and easy to follow. Should the analyst wish to inquire further, at least one reference is presented for each procedure. One hundred seventy-four procedures for the analysis of one hundred and one drugs are presented. Unfortunately, only IS of these are new additions to the 1980 first edition. The remaining 159 procedures are exactly as previously published reflecting 1970s technologies (for example, packed gas chromatographic [GC] columns, flame ionization detectors [FID]).

This book is a compilation of summarized analytical methods designed to serve the needs of pharmacologists, toxicologists, and other allied health professionals involved the development, use, or monitoring of pharmaceuticals. The summaries are structured monographs on 511 different drug entities detailing 964 different analytical methods, providing the reader with a thorough description of method validation. These analytical methods include not only high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), but also gas chromatography (GC), immunoassay, electrophoresis, ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled with UV (UPLC-UV) detection and mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). With more detailed and complete summaries than sketchy and abbreviated formats used in the other books, this book provides a thorough description of method validation and results, as well as the operating parameters.

Adapting modern advances in analytical techniques to daily laboratory practices challenges many toxicologists, clinical laboratories, and pharmaceutical scientists. The Handbook of Analytical Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology helps you keep abreast of the innovative changes that can make your laboratory - and the studies undertaken in it - a success. This volume simplifies your search for appropriate techniques, describes recent contributions from leading investigators, and provides valuable evaluations and advice.

This important, new reference provides the first , up-to-date, and comprehensive treatmentof the various liquid chromatography (LC) instrumentation for Therapeutic DrugMonitoring (TDM) and toxicology drug assays and reviews the clinical pharmacologyof major classes of drugs and their LC analyses.Written by authoritative contributors who bring many years of personal laboratory/clinical experience to the book, this interdisciplinary work : presents the principlesof TDM, sampling techniques, and various instrumentation topics, including computerinterfacing, mass spectrometry, fluorescence , electrochemical detection, and bloodcollection devices . .. examines six primary classes of drugs, complete with recommendedLC procedures and emphasizing recently introduced drugs and their LC analyses. .. and documents medicolegal guidelines and laboratory management considerations,providing a contemporary assessment of today's laboratory needs.The only practical, current guide available on the subject, Therapeutic Drug Monitoringand Toxicology by Li([uid Chromatography belongs in the personal libraries of clinicaland analytical chemists and biochemists, clinical pharmacologists, clinical toxicologists,clinical pathologists, immunologists, liquid chromatographers, mass spectroscopists, laboratorydirectors, laboratory instrument manufacturers , and medical technologists. Thebook is also vital supplementary reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate-levelclinical chemistry, toxicology, clinical pathology, and liquid chromatography course.

Written in a handbook style with specific methods and tips on eliminating false positive and false negative results, this book is a practical guide to the detailed mechanisms of such occurrences.