Epidemiology of alcohol-related unintentional drowning: is post-mortem ethanol production a real challenge?
Abstract Background Post-mortem (PM) ethanol production may hamper the interpretation of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in victims of drowning. Different exclusion criteria (e.g. cases with low BAC or with protracted interval between death and toxicological analysis) have been proposed with no fa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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Series: | Injury Epidemiology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40621-018-0169-4 |