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Legal Blood Alcohol Testing in the U.S. Military
Peter L Platteborze1, Kelly W Wilhelms1
1Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services, Brooke Army Medical Center, 3551 Roger Brooke Drive, JBSA-FSH, San Antonio, TX 78234.
Objective:
To retrospectively analyze multiple years of legal blood alcohol test (LBAT) results as part of a laboratory process improvement plan.
Methods:
We analyzed the LBAT requests received by the Brooke Army Medical Center during calendar years 2013 and 2014.
Results:
We received 365 samples from 11 installations; 351 were tested and 14 were rejected. Nearly one-third of the tested samples had negligible ethanol levels. One installation was responsible for submitting 10 rejected samples which prompted laboratory intervention.
Conclusion:
The ability to perform timely LBATs is invaluable to the Department of Defense as the results are more readily accepted in a court of law than routine clinical ethanol test results.
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