title: Application of quantitative ethanol detector (QED) test kit to measure ethanol concentration in blood samples.
abstract: In this paper, the applicability of the quantitative ethanol detector (QED) test kit for screening of ethanol concentrations in blood samples was investigated. The pretreatment of blood using the sulfosalicylic acid solution and the three-way stopcock followed by membrane filtration gave satisfactory results. The ethanol concentrations in whole blood samples (n=61) determined by QED correlated well with those determined by gas chromatography; the correlation coefficient indicated 0.990. Because a high correlation coefficient (0.928) was also confirmed in trial by investigators, QED test should be highly considered for ethanol screening in forensic praxis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka 020-8505, Japan. milk-1@mx11.freecom.ne.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Biwasaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tokuta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niitsu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aoki
mesh_terms: D001557:Benzenesulfonates; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D004867:Equipment Design; D000431:Ethanol / Q000097:blood*; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D012459:Salicylates; D014238:Trichloroacetic Acid
chemical_list: D001557:Benzenesulfonates; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D012459:Salicylates; D000431:Ethanol; D014238:Trichloroacetic Acid; C003366:sulfosalicylic acid