title: High-performance liquid chromatographic method for the quantitation of bupivacaine, 2,6-pipecoloxylidide and 4'-hydroxybupivacaine in plasma and urine.
abstract: A high-performance liquid chromatographic method with ultraviolet detection at 210 nm for quantitation of bupivacaine and two of its metabolites from plasma and urine is described. The compounds are extracted into n-hexane-isopropanol (5:1), evaporated and the reconstituted residue injected onto a reversed phase C18 column. Standard curves for all compounds were linear (r2 greater than 0.999) in the range 20-2000 ng/ml, with a limit of detection of 10 ng/ml. The inter-day coefficients of variation ranged between 2.7 and 12.2%. The method was applied to analyse bupivacaine and metabolite concentrations in patients on long-term epidural bupivacaine-fentanyl infusions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kastrissios
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Triggs
mesh_terms: D002045:Bupivacaine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: C051879:4'-hydroxybupivacaine; C025149:2',6'-pipecoloxylidide; D002045:Bupivacaine