A 25-year-old female died from a suicidal overdose of imipramine, acetaminophen, codeine,
diphenhydramine, and ethanol. Blood samples from ten segregated arterial and venous …

Femoral blood is widely accepted as the most reliable postmortem specimen for drug
analysis in forensic toxicology. There is considerable evidence that the drug concentrations …

Aims—To compare blood drug concentrations during life with postmortem drug
concentrations measured from a peripheral site and a central site. Methods—Coroner's …

The dependence of postmortem blood-drug concentrations on the collection site and on the
postmortem interval before specimen collection has been studied. These studies consisted …

For many years it has become increasingly apparent from literature reports that the
postmortem cardiac blood concentrations of certain drugs can be significantly different than …

A compilation of postmortem femoral blood concentrations of drugs is presented. The
samples are collected from cases in which the cause of death was: A) certified intoxication …

The possibility that postmortem biochemical changes in blood might parallel drug
redistribution and thus serve as markers was explored in a detailed case study. Eighteen …

Detailed toxicological studies were undertaken on two suicides by amitriptyline overdose,
one with salicylate also. In the first case, 10 initial blood samples taken 21 h after body …

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Publications focusing on the analysis of postmortem specimens for the presence of drugs
were reviewed with particular reference to systematic toxicological analysis. Specimens …