Evaluating the utility of dipstick drug screens as a postmortem triage modality

JP Gates, J Khan-Gates, M Wagner… - Academic Forensic …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Urine dipsticks are an inexpensive, rapid tool for detecting common drugs of abuse (eg,
cocaine, oxycodone, methamphetamine, opiates, and benzodiazepines) in postmortem …

Evaluating the Reliability of Dipstick Drug Screens on Vitreous and Postmortem Blood as a Triage Modality in Forensic Pathology

L Gitto, M Mir, P Arunkumar - Academic Forensic Pathology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Dipstick drug screens are cheap, easy to use, and quick presumptive tests to detect common
drugs of abuse. Dipsticks are designed for drug detection in urine. There is no literature …

Assessment of urine drug screen utility at autopsy to predict laboratory postmortem blood toxicology

C Arndt, MA Huestis, HC Jarvis… - Journal of Forensic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When faced with increasing drug‐related deaths and decline in practicing forensic
pathologists, the need to quickly identify toxicology‐related deaths is evident in order to …

Evaluation and applicability of Alere iCup DX 14 for rapid postmortem urine drug screening at autopsy

S Towler, M Concheiro, S Pearring… - Journal of Forensic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Performing point‐of‐care urine drug screen testing at autopsy by a forensic pathologist may
provide an early indication of the presence of analytes of interest during autopsy. An …

Assessment of Triage DOA®, Status DS10, and DRIVEN-FLOW® M8-Z on-site drug screening kits for postmortem urine

T Tanaka, K Yoshida, K Kasai, S Yoshizumi, H Sato - Legal Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Based on the screening results of mass analyses using gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry (GC–MS) and liquid chromatograph-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) …

Evaluation of the on-site immunoassay drug-screening device Triage-TOX in routine forensic autopsy

M Tominaga, T Michiue, H Maeda - Legal Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Instrumental identification of drugs with quantification is essential in forensic toxicology,
while on-site immunoassay urinalysis drug-screening devices conveniently provide …

Postmortem drug analysis: analytical and toxicological aspects

OH Drummer, J Gerostamoulos - Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Publications focusing on the analysis of postmortem specimens for the presence of drugs
were reviewed with particular reference to systematic toxicological analysis. Specimens …

Screening postmortem blood and tissues for nine cases of drugs of abuse using automated microplate immunoassay

KA Moore, C Werner, RM Zannelli, B Levine… - Forensic science …, 1999 - Elsevier
A commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) was evaluated as a
screening procedure for the detection of nine classes of abused drugs in postmortem blood …

Applicability of an on-site test for its use in post-mortem blood

A Arroyo, M Sánchez, M Palahí, M Barbal, MT Marrón… - Legal Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
The number of deaths related to drugs of abuse makes necessary the use of an on-site test
for those cases in which a rapid detection of the consumed drug is required. Cozart® DDS …

Validation of a microtiter plate ELISA for screening of postmortem blood for opiates and benzodiazepines

P Kemp, G Sneed, T Kupiec… - Journal of analytical …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The object of this study was to evaluate the suitability of the Neogen Corp. microtiter plate
enzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISA) for opiates and benzodiazepines for screening of …