“…So far, high performance liquid chromatography (HPlC) methods were described to determine racemic ketorolac in human plasma [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], racemic ketorolac in human urine [16,20,21], p-hydroxy-ketorolac in human plasma [18], p-hydroxy-ketorolac in human urine [20,21], ketorolac enantiomers in human plasma [20,22,[25][26][27][28][29] and ketorolac enantiomers in human urine [20]. Except for solid-phase extraction for racemic ketorolac [19,23,24] and for ketorolac enantiomers [22,29], published sample preparations include mainly liquid-liquid extractions for racemic ketorolac [17,18,20,21] and ketorolac enantiomers [20,[25][26][27][28]30]. Mroszczak et al [21] described ethyl acetate and hexane extraction Abstract In order to enhance the sensitivity and to develop a faster direct method for plasma and urine quantification of racemic ketorolac, its metabolites (p-hydroxyketorolac and ketorolac glucuronides) and ketorolac enantiomers, we developed an extraction procedure based on solid-phase extraction combined with specific and fast chromatographic separation.…”