2015 AACC

When Toxicology Results and Clinical Presentation Do Not Correlate: How to Communicate With Clinicians and Guide Further Testing Decisions-74107 (Room Georgia World Congress Center - B303)

29 Jul 15
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Consultative Clinical Chemistry, Drug Abuse, Factors Affecting Test Results, Mass Spectrometry, Toxicology

Speaker(s): Amitava Dasgupta, Univ. of Texas at Houston Medical School; Kara Lynch, University of California/San Francisco General Hospital

After this session, participants will be able to: 1) identify circumstances in which routine toxicology testing may fail to identify a difficult to detect drug or a designer drug in the poisoned patient; 2) communicate effectively with ordering physicians to identify the probable cause of negative toxicology results and decide which further testing should be conducted; 3) understand the analytical challenges in detecting novel psychoactive substances; and 4) set up new drugs of abuse test in the laboratory if possible