Resumen de Validation of a method to detect central nervous system acting drugs in blood by gc/ms. Application in cases of death caused by phenothiazines in the north of chile
Felipe Bravo, Roberto Ulloa, Karina Venegas, Maria Cecilia Contzen, David Ríos, Margarita Briceño, Pedro Buc Calderoni, Julio Benites
A simple and rapid analytical method is developed and validated for the determination of antiepileptic and antipsychotic drugs in human whole blood using a solid-phase extraction and quantification by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Prazepam was used as internal standard (IS). The specificity, linearity, intra- and inter-assay precision and accuracy, and extraction recovery were fully evaluated. The limits of detection and quantification were in the range of 0.52 - 0.98 μg/mL and 1.56 - 2.97 μg/mL for antiepileptic drugs (pentobarbital, phenobarbital and carbamazepine) and 1.31 - 2.94 ng/mL and 3.98 - 8.89 ng/mL for antipsychotic drugs (chlorpromazine and thioridazine), respectively. The relative standard deviation (RSD) was less than 7.07%, while the intra-day accuracy was < 3.21% and the inter-day was < 8.80%, referred to RSD. The developed methodology was applied in forensic cases of death caused by phenothiazines in the North of Chile during 2010-2012.
