Protect Your Patients—Secure Your Practice with PtProtect

Opioid analgesics have a legitimate and important role in managing chronic pain. Yet the use and abuse of prescription medications is a growing problem throughout the United States.

An accurate determination of a patient’s medication intake is critical to patient safety. Our statistics suggest a 6-in-10 chance that a patient’s urine drug test result will disclose information not explained by the patient’s known pain medication prescriptions.¹

With PtProtect, you get the confidence and reliability you need to ensure successful pain medication monitoring:

COMPREHENSIVE

Detects up to 38 prescribed medications and illicit drugs, reducing the possibility of adverse drug reactions and identifying potential diversion of medications.

SENSITIVE

Uses Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) and the lowest available detection thresholds for the most accurate and sensitive opiate/opioid testing. Our data shows that up to 30% of drugs found by LC/MS/MS would have been missed using conventional immunoassay screens for opiates and opioids.

INTERPRETIVE
Analytical reports and easy-to-understand interpretive comments eliminate guesswork and save you time.

The PtProtect difference:

• Board-certified toxicologists are available for consultation from test selection to result interpretation.
• Opiate screens used by other laboratories only detect codeine and morphine, not other opioid analgesics, without relying on an initial screen.
• Uses lowest detection thresholds for most sensitive, comprehensive detection of opiates and opioids.
• Heroin metabolite (6-monoacetylmorphine) testing available on most panels

PtProtect is offered by PeaceHealth Laboratories. Get the assurance that comes from a College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited laboratory. PeaceHealth Laboratories’ toxicologists have decades of experience, putting them among a select few in the country.

1. Actual percentage of PtProtect drug tests performed at PeaceHealth Laboratories that do not match prescribed medications indicated.