| Literature DB >> 2390156 |
I C Phair1, S Mardel, G G Bodiwala.
Abstract
Measurements of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) were made on patients who presented to an accident and emergency department with acute alcohol intoxication. A correlation of r = 0.418 was noted to exist between BAC as measured by sampling saliva and blood. Blood alcohol concentrations as measured by salivary reagent strip (ALCO-SCREEN, Chem Elec.) were significantly lower (p less than 0.0001) than those determined by gas chromatography of serum. Although such reagent strips offer a rapid measurement of BAC, it is concluded that they are unreliable for the quantitative measurement of BAC in accident and emergency departments.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID： 2390156 PMCID： PMC1285670 DOI： 10.1136/emj.7.2.69
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Emerg Med ISSN： 0264-4924