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The Blood Alcohol Concentration at Post-Mortem in 175 Fatal Cases of Alcohol Intoxication

Published:1990-04 Issue:2 Volume:30 Page:101-105
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Heatley M K¹,Crane J²

Affiliation:

1. Registrar in Pathology, Department of Pathology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Pathology, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BL

2. State Pathologist for Northern Ireland, Department of Forensic Medicine, The Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Pathology, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BL

Abstract

The mean blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in 175 fatal cases of acute alcohol intoxication was found to be 355 mg/100 ml. This figure is less than that quoted in many standard textbooks on forensic medicine. The BAC in fatal cases of acute alcohol intoxication complicated by aspiration was lower than in those cases where there was no evidence of aspiration at autopsy. In those individuals with a previous history of alcohol abuse the BAC causing death was found to be significantly higher than in those without a history of prolonged heavy alcohol consumption suggesting that a degree of tolerance to the effects of alcohol may be induced.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580249003000203

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