Handbook of Drug Monitoring Methods Therapeutics and Drugs of Abuse /

In Handbook of Drug Monitoring Methods: Therapeutics and Drug Abuse, authors discuss the different analytical techniques used in today’s practice of therapeutic drug monitoring and drugs of abuse as well as alcohol testing with relevant theory, mechanism, and in-depth scientific discussion on each t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dasgupta, Amitava (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Monitoring Free Drug Concentration
  • Analytical Techniques for Measuring Concentrations of Therapeutic Drugs in Biological Fluids
  • The Pre-Analytical Phase of Drug Testing
  • Effect of Hemolysis, High Bilirubin, Lipemia, Paraproteins, and System Factors on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Digoxin
  • Interferences with Measurement of Anticonvulsants
  • Pitfalls in Measuring Antidepressant Drugs
  • Immunosuppressive Drugs
  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  • Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
  • Interference of Heterophilic and Other Antibodies in Measurement of Therapeutic Drugs by Immunoassays
  • Drug–Herb and Drug–Food Interactions
  • Toxic Element Testing with Clinical Specimens
  • Alcohol Testing
  • to Drugs of Abuse Testing
  • Urinary Adulterants and Drugs of Abuse Testing
  • Hair, Oral Fluid, Sweat, and Meconium Testing for Drugs of Abuse
  • 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.