Alabdalla Mahmoud A
Department of Chemical Analysis, Forensic Science Laboratory, Amman, Jordan.
J Clin Forensic Med. 2005 Dec;12(6):310-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.05.002. Epub 2005 Aug 5.
A solid-phase extraction technique and HPLC-DAD method for drug screening in plasma were developed. This analytical method extracts and tests a number of drugs of different classes. The method includes; an acidic and basic Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) of plasma with C18 cartridges, a gradient elution of a modified cyano column with acidic buffer/acetonitrile eluent and a photodiode array ultraviolet (UV) detection. The drug screening procedure applied uses retention index and UV spectral data for the identification of compounds, may be appropriate in particular laboratory settings.