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. 1972 Oct;25(10):899–904. doi: 10.1136/jcp.25.10.899

A rapid micro-method for the screening and measurement of barbiturates and related compounds in plasma by gas-liquid chromatography

R J Flanagan 1, G Withers 1,1
PMCID: PMC477544  PMID: 4646303

Abstract

A rapid gas-chromatographic method has been developed for the determination of butobarbitone, amylobarbitone, hexabarbitone, pentobarbitone, quinalbarbitone, phenobarbitone glutethimide, and methaqualone in `finger-prick' samples of plasma. This has been applied to the analysis of some of these drugs in plasma taken from patients after therapeutic dosage and over-dosage.

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