Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Post Mortem Interpretation of Blood Alcohol Concentration

Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Pacific Medical College & Hospital, Udaipur

*Corresponding author: Y Udayashankar, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Pacific Medical College, Udaipur-313001. Mobile no: +919601959977. Email: drudayshankar.y@gmail.com

Online published on 5 January, 2015.

Abstract

A person's blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) and state of inebriation at the time of death is not always easy to establish owing to various postmortem artifacts, individual variations and circumstances. This article analyses how to interpret the given blood alcohol concentration value that is given by the Forensic science laboratory.

Keywords

Forensic science Lab, Blood Alcohol Concentration, Urine Alcohol Concentration, Vitreous Humour, Potassium or Sodium Fluoride