02817nam a2200313 a 4500 ebr10580148 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120117s2012 njua sb 001 0 eng d 2012002022 9781118149652 (cloth) 9781118347836 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)808346377 RB56 .D37 2012eb 615.7/040724 23 Dasgupta, Amitava, 1958- Resolving erroneous reports in toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring [electronic resource] : a comprehensive guide / Amitava Dasgupta. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012. viii, 457 p. : ill. 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. Drug monitoring. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10580148 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 187797 187797