@article{20075ce941f34366bd71253879c82d17,
title = "ALCOHOL INTOXICATION AND SERUM OSMOLALITY",
abstract = "The relation between serum osmolality and blood-alcohol was studied prospectively in 565 acute trauma patients. The two measurements were closely correlated. It is therefore possible to estimate the blood-alcohol from serum osmolality to assist in the clinical management of acutely injured patients.",
author = "Champion, {Howard R.} and Baker, {Susan P.} and Carol Benner and Russell Fisher and Caplan, {Yale H.} and Long, {William B.} and Cowley, {R. Adams} and William Gill",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Maryland Medical-Legal Highway Safety. We thank Brian and O{\textquoteright}Neill the Insurance for his Institute criticism for and John Nolan and Mark Stega for their help with the statistics. Requests for reprints should be addressed to H. R. C., 15 W. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, U.S.A. Funding Information: The Cholera Research Laboratory is a part of the N.I.H. Cholera Research Program and is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and by the Governments of Bangladesh, the United Kingdom, and Australia.. The N.I.H. Cholera Advisory Committee coordinates the research programme. These studies were supported in part by research agreement no. 196802 between N.I.H. and the Cholera Research Laboratory as well as research agreement no. RO 7 A110048 11 between N.I.H. and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Research and Training, Baltimore. The assistance of I)r Ruth Hare, and of the nursing and laboratory staff of the C.R.L., is gratefully acknowledged. Requests for reprints should be addressed to D. R. N., C.M.R.T., 550 no. Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, U.S.A.",
year = "1975",
month = jun,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1016/S0140-6736(75)92608-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "305",
pages = "1402--1404",
journal = "The Lancet",
issn = "0140-6736",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "7922",
}