Newborn Drug Testing: Laboratory Testing Options and What to Expect From Results

Course overview

This presentation provides an overview of newborn drug testing, with emphasis on testing meconium and/or umbilical cord tissue, which are neonate specimens that can detect in utero drug exposures. Guidance for interpretation of results and investigation of unexpected results is discussed as well. Learning Objectives: Compare and contrast specimen types used to detect drug-exposed newborns, List challenges associated with comparing cutoffs for meconium and umbilical cord drug tests, Describe how unexpected newborn drug testing results should be investigated.