Ateneo - UPO

Description of the principal drugs of abuse and most diffused drugs to which a therapeutic drug monitoring is applied.
Liquid and gas-chromatographyc techniques.

No specific textbook, slide disposable at lessons

Acquiring knowledge about chromoatographic and mass spectrometry analysis techniques in clinical and forensic pharmaco-toxicology

Inorganic and organic chemistry knowledge and laboratory instrumentation skills.

PC equipped with projector, blackboard and markers

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Oral examination

Principles of chromatography, equations inherent to chromatographic processes, separation mechanisms.
Liquid chromatography, principles, HPLC, instrumentation, components.
Gaschromatography, principles, instrumentation, components.
Mass spectrometry, principles, sources, analyzers, detectors.
Biological matrices, sample preparation tecniques, liquid-liquid extraction, solidphase extractio, calibration methods.
Basic knowledge of Art.186 and 187 of the traffic law.
Drugs of abuse, toxic substances.Examples of analysis protocols.

Knowledge of the chromatograpic principles, of instrumentation and of the principal toxic substances.
To be able to speculate an analitic method in consideration of the chemical properties of a susbtance.