Alcohol and the emergency service patient.
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Alcohol and the emergency service patient.
To determine the prevalence of alcohol use in casualty patients breath-alcohol analysis was performed on 702 patients attending the accident and emergency department of a large teaching hospital during the evening. Forty per cent of patients had consumed alcohol before attending and 32% had a blood alcohol concentration exceeding 17.4 mmol/l (80 mg/100 ml). Clinical assessment of intoxication r...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.281.6241.638