Bedeutung des Alkohols in der Embryofetalperiode und beim Neugeborenen

✍ Scribed by P�schel, Klaus ;Seifert, Hendrik

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1437-1596
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00201312

✦ Synopsis

At delivery the newborn infant of a drunken mother had a bloodalcohol concentration of about 2.0%o. The elimination rate was calculated to be 0.08%0/h. The infant exhibited obvious features of an embryofetal alcohol syndrome.

Several cases from literature are cited with ethanol given for therapeutic purpose in obstetrics and bloodalcohol concentration exceeding to 1%0--2%0. This means that values up to 2%0 in newborn infants without any other pathological findings should not solely be accepted as cause of death in forensic cases.