Citation

Zink M, Troger HD, Zink P. Blutalkohol 1997; 34(6): 413-426.

Affiliation

Lehrstuhl fur Chirurgie, 51109 Koln, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Committee on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety and Bund gegen Alkohol und Drogen im Straßenverkehr, Publisher Steintor Verlag)

DOI

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Abstract

Taking into consideration the organ compartments lung, liver, stomach and bowel, kidney, muscle, skin and rest, and the blood vessel compartments arteries, veins, pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins the following results came up during computer simulation: 1. Venous ethanol concentration is always marginally below values calculated using the Widmark formula. This is due to the fact that venous blood contains a lower ethanol concentrations as it is diluted with hepatic blood of a low ethanol concentration. 2. As for the forensically relevant range of above 0.01 per cent no significant differences between the metabolism of ethanol with zero-order and Michaelis-Menten- kinetics could be detected.