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Newborn Toxicology – A Review and Recent Developments
Please join us for ToxTime with Joseph Jones, Ph.D., NRCC-TC, Chief Operating Officer at USDTL, as he discusses the evolution of drug testing in various newborn specimen types, followed by a brief Q&A.
What You’ll Learn
- The pros and cons of newborn specimen types
- The evolution of newborn testing from urine to meconium to umbilical cord tissue
- A brief overview of previous studies
- And more…
- Umbilical Cord Tissue Testing for SSRIs
- A Comparison of Turnaround-Times for Two Popular Specimen Types Used for Newborn Toxicology: Meconium and Umbilical Cord Tissue
- Using Umbilical Cord Tissue to Identify Prenatal Ethanol Exposure and Co-exposure to Other Commonly Misused Substances
- Toxicology as a Diagnostic Tool to Identify the Misuse of Drugs in the Perinatal Period
- Specimen Delay
- Drug Classes and Neurotransmitters: Amphetamine, Cocaine, and Hallucinogens
- Environmental Exposure Testing for Delta-8 THC, Delta-9 THC, Delta-10 THC, and CBD
- Bromazolam and Synthetic Benzodiazepines
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