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" Handbook of drug monitoring methods "
edited by Amitava Dasgupta.
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BL
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602600
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b431819
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| Title & Author
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Handbook of drug monitoring methods : therapeutics and drugs of abuse /\ edited by Amitava Dasgupta.
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| Publication Statement
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Totowa, N.J. :: Humana,, c2008.
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x, 445 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm.
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9781588297808 (alk. paper)
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: 1588297802 (alk. paper)
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: 9781597450317 (e-ISBN)
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: 1597450316 (e-ISBN)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction to therapeutic drug monitoring. -- Monitoring free drug concentation. -- Analytical techniques for measuring concentrations of therapeutic drugs in biological fluids. -- The pre-analytical phase of drug testing: from specimen collection to analysis. -- Effect of hemolysis, high bilirubin, lipemia, paraproteins, and system factors on therapeutic drug monitoring. -- Digoxin: so many interferences and how to eliminate them. -- Interferences with measurement of anticonvulsants. -- Pitfalls in measuring antidepressant drugs. -- Immunosuppressive drugs: pharmacokinetics, preanalytic variables, and analytical considerations. -- Therapeutic drug monitoring in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. -- Pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine: issues and methodology. -- Interference of heterophilic and other antibodies in measurement of therapeutic drugs by immunoassays. -- Drug-herb and drug-food interactions: impact on therapeutic drug monitoring. -- Toxic element testing with clinical specimens. -- Alcohol testing. -- Introduction to drugs of abuse testing. -- Urinary adulterants and drugs of abuse testing. -- Hair, oral fluid, sweat, and meconium testing for drugs of abuse: advantages and pitfalls. -- Abused and designer drugs and how they escape detection. -- Interpretation of amphetamines screening and confirmation testing. -- Clinical false-positive drug test results. -- Providing expert witness for alcohol and positive drugs of abuse test results.
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Drug monitoring, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Dasgupta, Amitava,1958-
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