Effect of alcohol on cognitive performances: Correlation with blood alcohol concentration

The Effect of Blood Alcohol Concentration on Motorcycle Crash Characteristics

This paper examines differences in accident characteristics and causation at different blood alcohol levels among 372 accident involved motorcycle riders who were tested shortly after they crashed. The subjects were part of a large, prospective, in-depth study of 1082 accident-involved motorcyclists in Thailand in which investigators went to the scene immediately after a crash to collect and an...

Medicolegal Alcohol Determination - Blood- or Breath-Alcohol Concentration?

Measuring the concentration of alcohol in body fluids represents a large part of the workload at forensic science and toxicology laboratories. In traffic-law enforcement, breath-alcohol testing is used worldwide for roadside screening and for evidential purposes. Many jurisdictions have adopted per se laws which make it a crime to drive with a blood- or breath-alcohol concentration above a pres...

Back calculation of blood alcohol concentration.

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...

Does Ingestion of Tincture of Opium Notably Raise Blood Alcohol Concentration?‎

Background: Tincture of opium (TOP) is currently used for maintenance therapy in treatment of opioids addiction. It contains ethanol. The present study was conducted to assess the increase in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in its users; a process which may interfere with breath-alcohol test performed by law enforcement or traffic police. Methods: A total of 143 individuals were selected rand...