Capillary gas chromatographic drug screen for use in forensic toxicology.
A screening method is presented involving the use of capillary gas chromatography using a BP-5 column and nitrogen-phosphorous detection. This method is a quick yet reliable procedure for a large range of neutral and basic drugs and uses 1 mL or less of blood. Running standards that contain a number of commonly observed drugs with each batch of cases allows for more accurate tentative identifications of likely drugs in unknown cases and also provides a measure of quality assurance. This method is suitable for postmortem and clinical blood samples as well as plasma and serum.
Drummer
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Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, Monash University, South Melbourne, Australia.
Horomidis
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Kourtis
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Syrjanen
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Tippett
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D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control; D012015:Reference Standards
D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations