The qualitative and quantitative analysis result of etomidate is one of the main reference points for the accurate convic-tion and sentencing of emerging drug-related crimes.This study reviews the etomidate detection technology at home and abroad.The de-tection methods of original etomidate are mainly from the updated methods published in Chinese Pharmacopoeia,and the research of eto-midate detection in biological detection focuses more on blood detection,while less on detection of urine and hair.For these methods,the detection cycle of single sample is long.This biggest disadvantage causes some problems such as the high-throughput detection of large amount of samples cannot be achieved,the cost is high and the sample pretreatment procedure is complex.According to the current situ-ation of high incidence of etomidate drug-related crimes in judicial practice,it is recommended that the future research concerning eto-midate detection method should focus on the influence of other substances,high-throughput detection methods,and the detection of me-tabolites and derivatives.
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