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biologic monitoring

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biologic monitoring,
1 a process of measuring the levels of various physiologic substances, drugs, or metabolites within a patient during diagnosis or therapy.
2 the measurement of toxic substances in the environment and the identification of health risks to the population. Biologic monitoring often uses indirect methods of identifying and measuring substances, such as analyses of samples of blood, urine, feces, hair, nails, sweat, saliva, or exhaled air and extrapolation from metabolic effects.


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Since the advent of sulphonamides, antibiotics, corticoids, blood banks, biologic monitoring devices, intensive care units and computers, there has been a tendency to forget the patient.
Each of these studies has employed biologic monitoring of urinary dialkylphosphate (DAP) metabolites to yield information on OP pesticide exposure.
Biologic monitoring appears to be the best available method for assessment of children's exposure to pesticides, with some limitations.
 
 
 
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