Case report of accidental poisoning with the tranquilizer xylazine and the anesthetic ketamine confirmed by qualitative and quantitative toxicological analysis using GC-MS and LC-MSn

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 785-789

  Meyer, Golo M J ^a   Meyer, Markus R ^a   Mischo, Bernhard ^b   Schofer, Otto ^b   Maurer, Hans H ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Marienhausklinik St Josef Kohlhof   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORTS; KETAMINE; LC-MS N; TOXICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

ANESTHETICS;

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DEER; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NIGHTMARE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; VETERINARY DRUGS; XYLAZINE;

EID: 84886085700     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1475     Document Type: Article

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