Clinical signs of alcohol intoxication and importance of blood alcohol concentration testing in alcohol dependence
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Clinical signs of alcohol intoxication and importance of blood alcohol concentration testing in alcohol dependence.
OBJECTIVES The goal of the study was to find out if and what is a difference between clinical signs of alcohol intoxication (AI) and a detected blood alcohol concentration (BAC) among the patients with syndrome of alcohol dependence. BACKGROUND The relation between BAC and clinical assessment of AI is a complicated issue. People with dependence form a special group due to their altered tolera...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bratislava Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1336-0345
DOI: 10.4149/bll_2013_030