A Gas Chromatographic Screening Procedure for Acid and Neutral Drugs in Blood

Abstract
A relatively simple extraction procedure for the comprehensive screening of acid, neutral, and many basic drugs is described. The procedure involves a single extraction into toluene-ether, evaporation, and combined dissolution and clean-up of the residue using ethanol and hexane. The ethanol phase is used for analysis by gas chromatography using a flame-ionization detector. More than 80 components have been detected and identified in blood by the procedure. The procedure can be used as a routine screen in clinical toxicology cases with results available within two hours.

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