The saliva strip test is an accurate method to determine blood alcohol concentration in trauma patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 885-887

  Degutis, Linda C ^a,b   Rabinovici, Reuven ^a   Sabbaj, Alfredo ^a   Mascia, Rebecca ^a   D'Onofrio, Gail ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Section of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol saliva testing; blood alcohol concentration; saliva testing; testing; trauma

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 3242729486     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.02.529     Document Type: Article

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