Medical Reference for Common OTC Prescription and Drugs

The idea that drug concentrations could be measured and used to guide therapeutic deci­sions was first applied to quinidine when it was used to convert the cardiac rhythm of patients with atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm (Sokolow & Ball 1956). Although quinidine is rarely used for this purpose today, because of the advent of DC [...]

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Therapeutic drug monitoring is based upon the collaboration between a health care provider (clinician, pharmacist, nurse) responsible for making quantitative and qualitative decisions about drug treatment and the clinical labora­tory providing analytical services for the measurement of drug concentrations. The in­formation provided by a drug concentration measurement is generally greater than for other substances measured [...]

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