Biosite Triage Drugs of Abuse Panel

Compact, intricate and simple to use -- Biosite's Triage® Panel has changed the practice of laboratory medicine by providing a rapid, qualitative test platform for simultaneous and highly sensitive detection of multiple analytes. With complex biological, chemical and micro-fluidic engineering elements supporting its precision and reliability, the Triage Panel is a proven and efficient diagnostic platform with potential applications for a host of critical disease states.

Already, the Triage® Panel for Drugs of Abuse (Triage DOA) enables 10 minute testing for up to eight of the most commonly overdosed prescription and illicit drugs. The value of the rapid diagnosis, coupled with the platform's reliability and accuracy, has made the Triage DOA Panel the leading product used by Canadian hospitals for drug analyses. Increasingly, this product is also gaining acceptance in occupational health clinics seeking to gain a competitive time advantage over reference laboratories in the workplace drug-screening domain.

Prescription drugs tested by the Triage Drugs of Abuse Panel include:

• barbiturates (Phenobarbital)
• benzodiazepines (Valium, Librium, Halcion)
• methadone
• propoxyphene (Darvon®)
• tricyclic antidepressants (Elavil, Tofranil)

Triage TOX Drug Screen

Now available, the Triage TOX Drug Screen.

Nearly every day patients are treated in emergency departments (ED) across the country for complications due to drug overdose. Attempting to identify the cause of the symptoms as drug-related and non-drug-related can cause considerable stress for ED physicians.

Rapid point-of-care drug testing with the Triage TOX Drug Screen makes sense to the ED:

• Improves patient care, and/or
• Reduces the expenses associated with additional diagnostic testing or unnecessary admissions

According to the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB), Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines (LMPG), stat toxicology assays required to support an ED should have a turnaround time of one hour or less. The Triage TOX Drug Screen provides rapid results at the point-of-care in approximately 15 minutes.

A Breakthrough in Point-of-Care Drug Testing.

Illicit drugs detected by the Triage ® Drugs of Abuse Panel and Triage TOX Drug Screen include:

• amphetamines/methamphetamines (ecstasy, speed, crystal)
• cocaine (crack)
• opiates (heroin)
• phencyclidine (angel dust), and
• tetrahydrocannabinol (pot, marijuana)