Simultaneous determination of propofol and its glucuronide in whole blood by liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry and the influence of sample storage conditions on the reliability of the test results

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
L K Sørensen, Jørgen B Hasselstrøm

Abstract

Propofol (2,6-diisopropylphenol) is commonly used as an anaesthetic agent but is also abused for recreational purposes. Several cases of fatalities involving self-administered propofol have been reported. For rapid quantification of propofol and propofol β-d-glucuronide (propofol G) in clinical and forensic cases, an ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method using pneumatically assisted electrospray ionisation has been developed. The technique has been validated on both ante-mortem and post-mortem human whole blood. The proteins in the blood samples were removed by the addition of a mixture of methanol and acetonitrile, and the extract was cleaned up by solid phase extraction. The extract was concentrated in dimethyl sulphoxide. The system was calibrated using matrix-matched calibrants combined with isotope dilution. The lower limits of quantification were 0.01 and 0.02mg/L for propofol and 0.02 and 0.04mg/L for propofol G in ante-mortem and post-mortem whole blood, respectively. The relative intra-laboratory reproducibility standard deviation was less than 10% at concentrations of 0.2mg/L or higher. The mean true extraction recovery was 85% for propofol and 81% for propofol G. The trueness of the ...Continue Reading

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