OBJECTIVE To investigate the contribution of alcohol ingestion to the radiological workload of an inner city accident and emergency (A&E) department. METHODS A prospective survey of patients presenting to A&E who required radiographs was performed over a seven day period. The A&E clinician questioned patients about alcohol intake during the six hours before the onset of the presenting complai...

Psychotic symptoms can occur in some clinical conditions related to alcohol, such as intoxication, withdrawal, and other alcohol-induced neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we present a case report of a 24-year-old man, without a known psychiatric history, who developed brief psychotic symptoms following ingestion of small quantities of alcohol repeatedly. To our knowledge, no related previous li...

This article focuses on the range of fetal anomalies associated with varied alcohol ingestion during pregnancy. A means for identifying women at risk for having infants with alcohol related birth defects and the more severe fetal alcohol syndrome are discussed. Primary methods for preventing these lasting birth defects are described for practitioners.

Auditory brainstem potentials were recorded from human subjects before and after an intoxicating dose of alcohol. Following alcohol ingestion there were significant, progressive increases in the latencies of brainstem potential peaks III through VII. No changes in peak amplitudes were found. The results indicate that alcohol has a depressive effect on neural transmission within the primary audi...

Methyl alcohol poisoning is an uncommon but an extremely hazardous poisoning. It most commonly occurs via oral ingestion of illicit or adulterated liquors or as ethanol substitution. The clinical diagnosis is made in the presence of high index of suspicion of toxic alcohol ingestion, early visual symptoms, unexplained anion gap metabolic acidosis and significant osmolar gap. Rapid recognisation...

The disposal of alcohol in the body has been a subject of wide interest and numerous publications. It is generally agreed that two methods are available to the body, excretion and oxidation. Sollman (1) states that from 2 to 10 per cent of the ingested alcohol is excreted by the lungs and kidneys, while the remainder is oxidized (2). Haggard and Greenberg (3) found that 2.1 to 4.3 per cent was ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that clinicians screen adults for alcohol misuse and provide persons engaged in risky or hazardous drinking behaviors with brief behavioral counseling to reduce alcohol misuse. However, only a minority of American adults with high-risk alcohol use receive treatment. Three medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to trea...