title: Capillary gas chromatographic drug screen for use in forensic toxicology.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, Monash University, South Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Drummer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horomidis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kourtis
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Syrjanen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tippett
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control; D012015:Reference Standards
chemical_list: D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations