WADA Drug Testing Procedures

 

                          WADA DRUG TESTING PROCEDURES

WADA(World Anti-Doping Agency)

The World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. The agency's key activities include scientific research, education, development of anti-doping capacities, and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code, whose provisions are enforced by the UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sport. The aims of the Council of Europe Anti-Doping Convention and the United States Anti-Doping Agency are also closely aligned with those of WADA.

The World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was set up on 10 November 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a result of what was called the "Declaration of Lausanne",[1] to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. Since 2002, the organization's headquarters have been located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Lausanne office became the regional office for Europe. Other regional offices have been established in Africa, Asia/Oceania and Latin America. WADA is responsible for the World Anti-Doping Code, adopted by more than 650 sports organizations, including international sports federations, national anti-doping organizations, the IOC, and the International Paralympic Committee. As of 2020, its president is WI told Banka.

Wada Test Preparation

Patients may be asked to avoid certain medications including aspirin or products containing aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and blood thinners for up to two weeks before this procedure. Ask your doctors what to do in your case.

Wada Test: Procedure

Part 1: Angiography

The patient lies on their back on the X-ray table, and the neuroradiologic injects a local anesthetic (numbing agent) into the skin near the . The injection may cause a slight pressure and burning. Once the area is numb, the doctor makes a small incision in the groin and inserts a small, flexible tube called a catheter through the skin and into an artery.

Then the doctor guides the catheter into the vessels to be examined. An X-ray system called fluoroscopy provides a television-like viewing of the inside of the body and helps the doctor move the catheter from one position to another in the blood vessels.

Once the catheter reaches a specific blood vessel, the patient is instructed to stay still while the X-ray dye is injected through the catheter. As this happens, the patient will notice a very warm feeling lasting about 10 to 20 seconds. At the same time, the patient will hear noise as the X-ray machine takes pictures of the dye's passage through the blood vessels.

The picture-taking process takes about 15 minutes for each blood vessel the doctor examines. The duration of the test for most patients .

Part 2: Memory, Speech and Muscle Test

Next, the neuroradiologic injects a medication into the catheter. When the drug reaches the side of the brain under study, the patient will temporarily lose all strength on the opposite side of the body. Sometimes only one side is tested; other times, one side is tested first and then the other after a short interval.

During the 10 to 15 minutes when one side of the brain is sedated, the testing team assesses the patient's speech, memory, and other functions. The patient is asked to perform tasks such as reading words and identifying objects, pictures, shapes and numbers. The team asks the patient to answer questions about what is shown and to remember it so it can be recalled or recognized at the end of the test.

The test also assesses muscle responses in the patient’s hand or arm strength periodically to determine motor function.

After strength returns, the testing team checks on how well the patient can remember what was shown during the time the brain was sedated on one side.

A sound recorder or video camera will record the patient's speech and movements for further study.

Written by:

Rohit Modh