background: to determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. the aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. methods: toxicological analysis we...

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Legal and medical practitioners need to remember that, with respect to drug analysis, there are two distinct disciplines in analytical toxicology concerned with human biological matrices, namely clinical and forensic toxicology. Both fields use similar analytical techniques designed to detect and quantify drugs, chemicals and poisons in fluids or tissues. In clinical toxicology, analytical resu...

In forensic toxicology analytical challenges are daily routine. For the presented work showcase analytes have been chosen covering some parts of the broad spectrum in forensic toxicology. The work focused on the role of LC-MS/MS in forensic toxicology for answering questions in forensic toxicology as well as in therapeutic drug monitoring. As biological matrices blood plasma and hair, as altern...

background: copper sulfate ingestion is a relatively popular method for committing suicide in indian subcontinent. it causes a high mortality rate, and so a growing concern has been raised to identify the severe alarming signs suggestive of poor prognosis and to improve treatment approaches. case report: a 22-year-old unmarried man working as a painter was found unconscious at his friend reside...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first objective was to compare a standard splitless injection technique with a large volume splitless injection (LVSL). The second objective was to evaluate the applicability of sequential full scan/SIM EI+ GC/MS data to the analyses of forensic toxicology samples. The utility of these techniques along with directions for future research will...

background:death due to acute poisoning is of medical, legal and social significance. this study was designed to investigate lethal poisonings among dead bodies referred to a regional office of iranian legal medicine organization (ilmo). methods:this was a retrospective descriptive-analytical study on dead bodies referred to fars province regional office of ilmo in shiraz, iran, during april 20...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding author) MD, FACMT, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. MD, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Ardabil Universit...