Resuscitation room blood alcohol concentrations: One-year cohort study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 752-756

  Touquet, Robin ^a   Csipke, E ^c   Holloway, P ^a   Brown, A ^b   Patel, T ^a   Seddon, A J ^a   Gulati, P ^a   Moore, H ^a   Batrick, N ^a   Crawford, M J ^c  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Central and North West London Foundation Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AUTOMUTILATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MISUSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; THORAX PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 56249128280     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.062711     Document Type: Article

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