“…Most published methods applied highly sensitive techniques, for example, LC–MS/MS, once low concentrations of this drug are found in plasma (ng/mL). Among the published methodologies for sample preparation, it is possible to observe that protein precipitation (Boehr & Haen, 2017; Derogis et al, 2017; Gai et al, 2019; Gouveia et al, 2020; Iqbal et al, 2015; Korostelev et al, 2014; Kuhn et al, 2015; Rohde, 2008; Shukla et al, 2020; Varga et al, 2017; Wiesen et al, 2017; Yadav & Dubey, 2017) is the most common one among other more costly and more complex techniques, such as SPE (Baldelli et al, 2016; Çelebier et al, 2016; Gouveia et al, 2020; Reddy et al, 2016; Shaikh et al, 2020).…”