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 …

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 …

The toolbox approach to forensic pathology

K Krehbiel, JK Pinckard - Academic Forensic Pathology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Medical examiners are physicians tasked with conducting medicolegal death investigations
to determine cause and manner of death. Although the autopsy is the most frequent tool …

[引用][C] Drug analysis: Comparison between dried plasma spots and liquid plasma samples of trauma patients from Cameroon—A feasibility study

H Gjerde, Y Oyono, REG Jamt… - Drug Testing and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Analysis of drugs in blood samples in some low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) can be
difficult or practically impossible. Laboratories in those countries might not have the financial …