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The effects of swabbing the skin on apparent blood ethanol concentration
1Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, Denmark Hill, London, U.K.
Alcohol and Alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The swabbing of the arm with ethanol before venepuncture significantly raised the apparent blood ethanol concentration, when compared to the unswabbed arm. In contrast, when isopropanol was substituted for ethanol in these studies, no change in the blood ethanol concentration was determined.