Blood alcohol stability in postmortem blood samples

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-58

  Sutlovic, Davorka ^a,b   Versic Bratincevic, Maja ^b   Definis Gojanovic, Marija ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

blood alcohol concentration (BAC); blood alcohol stability; postmortem blood

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; COLD; DRUG STABILITY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DRUG STABILITY; ETHANOL; FLAME IONIZATION; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84894491832     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: 1533404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0000000000000077     Document Type: Article

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