title: Medicolegal alcohol determination: Widmark revisited.
abstract: Several concepts and principles advanced by Widmark over 50 years ago are briefly compared with results of recently published experimental work. His conclusions--that breath alcohol analysis can lead to overestimates of actual blood alcohol concentration, and that +/- 2 standard deviations about the average should be used to estimate certain pharmacokinetic parameters for medicolegal alcohol determinations--are supported by these more-recent experimental results.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001944:Breath Tests; D000431:Ethanol / Q000032:analysis* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol