Peak and trough test definition

Peak and trough test means a therapeutic monitoring of serum methadone levels to determine the most appropriate dosing strategy for the individual patient, requiring at least two blood samples be drawn. The initial sample taken immediately prior to the daily dose and twenty four hours after the previous day's dose allowing the lowest level or "trough" to be identified. The second sample taken four hours after dosing allows the highest level or "peak" to be identified.
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  • RDDS test Means one query sent to a particular “IP address” of one of the servers of one of the RDDS services. Queries shall be about existing objects in the Registry System and the responses must contain the corresponding information otherwise the query will be considered unanswered. Queries with an RTT 5 times higher than the corresponding SLR will be considered as unanswered. The possible results to an RDDS test are: a number in milliseconds corresponding to the RTT or undefined/unanswered.

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