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NOVAtest® Ketamine Urine Test

REF:

C8603 (Strip)

C8604 (Cassette)

 

INTENDED USE:

Ketamine Urine Test is a lateral flow chromatographic immunoassay for the detection of Ketamine in human urine at a cut-off concentration of 1000 ng/mL. This test will detect other related compounds, please refer to Analytical Specificity table in this package insert. This assay provides only a preliminary analytical test result. A more specific alternate chemical method must be used in order to obtain a confirmed analytical result. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is the preferred confirmatory method. Clinical consideration and professional judgment should be applied to any drug of abuse test result, particularly when preliminary positive results are used.

 

SUMMARY:

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic developed in 1963 to replace PCP (Phencyclidine). While Ketamine is still used in human anesthesia and veterinary medicine, it is becoming increasingly abused as a street drug. Ketamine is molecularly similar to PCP and thus creates similar effects including numbness, loss of coordination, sense of invulnerability, muscle rigidity, aggressive / violent behavior, slurred or blocked speech, exaggerated sense of strength, and a blank stare. There is depression of respiratory function but not of the central nervous system, and cardiovascular function is maintained. The effects of Ketamine generally last 4-6 hours following use. Ketamine is excreted in the urine as unchanged drug (2.3%) and metabolites (96.8%). Ketamine Urine Test is a rapid urine screening test that can be performed without the use of an instrument. The test utilizes a monoclonal antibody to selectively detect elevated levels of Ketamine in urine. Ketamine Urine Test yields a positive result when Ketamine in urine exceeds 1,000 ng/mL.

Product details


REFProduct Name FormatKit Size Specimen
C8603
Ketamine Urine Test
Strip150TUrine
C8604
Ketamine Urine Test
Cassette40TUrine