Drug Prevalence in Road Trauma Victims in Victoria
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Methods. With Ethics Committee approval, a blood sample was obtained from all patients taken to a major trauma hospital in Melbourne following a motor vehicle collision. This was done at the same time and under the same law as the compulsory blood screening which is legal in Victoria. 358 specimens have been submitted for analysis so far. Blood stored in vacutainer tubes containing preservative were screened for drugs using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmed using chromatographic techniques. Medically administered drugs were excluded from the results.
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