TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dasgupta,Amitava
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Resolving erroneous reports in toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring: a comprehensive guide 
AV  - RB56 .D37 2012eb
U1  - 615.7/040724 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Drug monitoring
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10580148
ER  -