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By N. Altus. Boise State University.

Compari- son of the two groups disclosed that an accident was statistically more likely at blood alcohol levels greater than 80 mg/100 mL of blood generic 10 mg ramipril visa, with accidents occurring more frequently as follows: Blood alcohol (mg/100 mL) Accident occurrence 50–100 1 5mg ramipril with visa. On average, the risk doubles at 80 mg/ 100 mL, increasing sharply to a 10 times risk multiplier at 150 mg/100 mL and a 20 times risk multiplier at 200 mg/100 mL of blood. For inexperienced and infrequent drinkers, the sharp increase occurs at much lower levels, whereas for the more experienced drinking driver it may not occur until 100 mg/100 mL (Fig. Therefore, this research has encouraged some countries to have a lower blood alcohol level for legal driving; in Australia, Canada, and some states of the United States, different levels and rules are applied for younger and/ or inexperienced drivers (see Subheading 3. Further evidence of the rela- tionship between crash risk and blood alcohol levels has been shown by Compton and colleagues (21), who studied drivers in California and Florida. This recent research studying a total of 14,985 drivers was in agreement with previous studies in showing increasing relative risk as blood alcohol levels increase, with an accelerated rise at levels in excess of 100 mg/100 mL of blood. However, after adjustments for missing data (hit-and-run driv- ers, refusals, etc. Risk of road traffic accidents related to level of alcohol in the blood and breath. Road Traffic Legislation In the United Kingdom, this research led to the introduction of the Road Safety Act 1967, which set a legal driving limit of 80 mg/100 mL of blood (or 35 μg/100 mL of breath or 107 mg/100 mL of urine). This law also allows mandatory roadside screening tests and requires the provision of blood or urine tests at police stations. The Transport Act 1981 provided that quantitative breath tests, performed with approved devices, could be used as the sole evidence of drunk driving. In the United States, permissible blood levels vary from state to state and also by age. Many states have enacted “zero tolerance” laws, and the detection 358 Wall and Karch of any alcohol in an individual younger than 21 years old is grounds for license revocation. Some states permit levels as high as 100 mg/100 mL, but most enforce the same limit as in the United Kingdom, and legislation to reduce the 80 mg/100 mL level further is under consideration. Equivalent Limits in Other Body Fluids Statutes have been used to establish blood alcohol concentration equiva- lents in other tissues and breath. Not infrequently, alcohol concentrations will be measured in accident victims taken for treatment at trauma centers. How- ever, there are two important differences between alcohol measurements made in hospitals and those made in forensic laboratories; first, in hospitals, stan- dard international units are the norm, the mole is the unit of mass, the liter is the unit of volume, and alcohol concentrations are reported in mmol/L. In forensic laboratories, results are expressed as gram/deciliter or liter, or even milligrams per milliliter, and measurements are made in whole blood, not serum or plasma. There is another, even more important, difference between serum/plasma and whole blood. Because alcohol has a large volume of distribution, this difference in water content means that alcohol concentrations measured in serum/plasma will be higher than concentrations measured in whole blood by approx 14%. In practice, if plasma alcohol concentrations are to be intro- duced as evidence, they should be related back to whole blood concentrations using an even higher ratio (1. As mentioned, if whole blood is tested, drivers are not usually prosecuted at blood levels below 87 mg/100 mL of blood (17). The instruments used are cali- brated to estimate the concentrations of alcohol in whole blood, not plasma or serum. To estimate the serum or plasma alcohol concentration from breath measurements, a plasma/breath ratio of 2600:1 must be used (because, as explained, whole blood contains 14% less alcohol). In Europe, but not neces- sarily in the United States, two specimens of breath are taken for analysis, and the specimen with the lower proportion of alcohol should be used as evidence. Bladder urine, because it contains alcohol (or other drugs) that may have accumulated over a long period, is generally not considered a suitable speci- men for forensic testing, especially because the presence of alcohol in the Traffic Medicine 359 Table 1 Prescribed Blood Alcohol Levels in Various Jurisdictions Australia 50 France 50 Poland 20 Austria 80 Germany 80 Romania 0 Belgium 80 Greece 50 Russia 0 Bulgaria 0 Hungary 0 Sweden 20 Canada 80 Italy 80 Spain 80 Czechoslovakia 80 Luxembourg 80 Turkey 0 Denmark 80 Netherlands 50 United States 100a Ireland 80 Norway 50 Yugoslavia 50 Finland 50 aSome states in the United States have reduced the legal level to 80 mg/100 mL of blood. Alcohol concentrations in bladder urine cannot be used to infer the blood levels reliably. Under the new California provisions, police can still request a urine test if a suspect’s breath test is negative (22). Com- parison of alcohol concentrations in vitreous and blood can provide a good indication of whether concentrations were rising or falling at the time of death (alcohol is distributed mainly in water and the water content of vitreous is lower than that of blood). Urine obtained from the kidney pelvis can also be used, because its alcohol content can be precisely related to blood concentra- tion (23). Legal Limits in Other Jurisdictions Table 1 shows permissible alcohol limits for various countries. All fig- ures are the maximum permissible amount in milligrams per 100 mL of blood (in the United States, referred to as deciliters [dL]). Although legislation has been introduced to enforce uniform standards, these standards have not been enacted, and in the United States, permissible alcohol levels vary from state to state. Countermeasures Numerous measures have already been taken to discourage drivers from drinking, and they have had a considerable degree of success. Lowering the Legal Limit When the legal limit was reduced in Sweden from 50 to 20 mg, there was a fall in casualties (24). It has been estimated that a similar reduction in the United Kingdom would save 50 lives, prevent 250 serious injuries, and elimi- nate another 1200 slight injuries each year.

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