>Yes, Ian. I totally agree that 4 hours or later is the time for
>assessment of paracetamol levels, but if there's none there at three
>hours there certainly isn't going to be any there at four hours! Thus
>the advice given was inappropriate.
I think I'm missing something here - how does that add up? If the levels
are undetectable at three hours, and this is a drug wherein levels are
optimally measured at four hours or more, doesn't it then follow that the
levels may rise, possibly drastically, in that intervening hour?
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Dr. Steven Angel, MD, General Pathologist
Department of Pathology
Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, SK
S7N 0W8
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