Citation

Keller T, Schneider A, Tutsch-Bauer E. Forensic Sci. Int. 1999; 106(2): 103-108.

Affiliation

Institute of Forensic Medicine, Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg, Austria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10664896

Abstract

An ingestion of an unknown quantity of Ivadal (zolpidem) tablets in a case of drug abuse is described. The authors report a new and fast method of analysing and determining the zolpidem concentration in postmortem specimens. Quantitation of zolpidem was performed by ethyl acetate extraction from alkalinized body fluids before GC/MS analysis. The analyses were performed without any complex sample clean-up steps and with little sample material. Postmortem concentrations of zolpidem in body fluids are given. The proposed method is a rapid procedure of analysis in cases of deliberate poisoning with the sedative-hypnotic drug, zolpidem.

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