>>Can anyone recommend reliable near-patient instruments (or non-instrumental >>devices) for obtaining quantitative plasma paracetamol (acetaminophen) >>results in extra-laboratory situations? I only have personal experience of one: an air tube system with a lab on the end. (You can label it as follows: Automated extended repertoire CPA-accredited analytical system: Insert specimens and request cards and the reports appear on the computer behind you.) Jonathan Kay PS: If there is a POCT device this sounds like a great application, expecially as you could use it in primary care and avoid sending 80 kg of specimen to A & E. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%