The Blood Alcohol Concentration Testing Emergency Room Investigation Analysis Study: A 1-Year Review of Blood Alcohol Concentration Testing in an Emergency Department
| العنوان: | The Blood Alcohol Concentration Testing Emergency Room Investigation Analysis Study: A 1-Year Review of Blood Alcohol Concentration Testing in an Emergency Department |
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| المؤلفون: | P Gilligan, Ayman El-Gammal, David Storey, Abbas Albaghli, Daniel Kane, Doireann Eves, Robert Durcan |
| المصدر: | Advances in Emergency Medicine. 2015:1-5 |
| بيانات النشر: | Hindawi Limited, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Glasgow Coma Scale, Poison control, Retrospective cohort study, Context (language use), Emergency department, Occupational safety and health, Injury prevention, Emergency medicine, Blood alcohol, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, business, General Environmental Science |
| الوصف: | Aim. To describe the actual use of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) testing in an emergency department. Method. This study was performed to examine in what circumstances emergency medicine doctors and nurses request blood alcohol concentrations and the outcome of patients so tested. A retrospective study was performed. A database of all the patients who presented to the emergency department and who were tested for BAC in 2012 was created. Descriptive statistics are used to present the findings. Results. During 2012, there were 1191 patients on whom BAC testing was performed. 37 patients had a BAC greater than the allegedly lethal concentration of 400 mg/100 mL. Using a multifactorial analysis model, a higher blood alcohol concentration was associated with a lower Glasgow Coma Score. Conclusion. BAC testing is most often performed in the context of alleged overdose. BAC was performed in other clinical scenarios albeit in less than 2% of all ED attendances. |
| تدمد: | 2314-7644 2356-6671 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::25cfeda0ecb9e2639b0b67e334118a29 https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/410827 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........25cfeda0ecb9e2639b0b67e334118a29 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23147644 23566671 |
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