Advances in clinical analysis 2012

A report on the meeting organized by The Chromatographic Society and the Separation Science Group, Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Over 60 delegates and commercial exhibitors attended this event, held to celebrate the careers of Robert Flanagan and David Perrett, and acknowledge their extensive contributions in the field of clinical analysis. In routine clinical laboratories, determination of drugs in plasma is a multistep procedure including sample pretreatment, calibration, chromatographic separation and detection, most often by MS. Nowadays, there has been a growing interest in automation of the whole procedure, offering significant savings in operation time. This has...