Citation

Lubkin SR, Gullberg RG, Logan BK, Maini PK, Murray JD. Alcohol Alcohol. 1996; 31(1): 61-67.

Affiliation

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-2420, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8672175

Abstract

For medicolegal purposes, breath alcohol content is typically determined from an end-expiratory sample. Measurements obtained by this method necessarily underestimate the alveolar breath alcohol content, and therefore underestimate the blood alcohol content. We suggest and analyse an improved paradigm which uses the entire time-series of breath alcohol measurements during exhalation, not simply the last recorded value. We present two mathematical models for the exhaling lung, and discuss the implications of each for more accurate and therefore more reliable breath alcohol measurement.

Language: en