Non-linear Kinetics of Ethyl Alcohol Metabolism

✍ Scribed by A.R.W. Forrest

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(86)72455-9

✦ Synopsis

Much attention has been given in recent years to the kinetics of ethyl alcohol metabolism [I, 2,3] and it has become generally accepted that they are better described by the Michaelis-Menten equation than by the zero order decline described by Widmark [4]. Whilst the application of Michaelis-Menten kinetics is of considerable theoretical interest, I believe that, with a few exceptions [5], it is of little practical use in case work as, for example, when one is asked to give an opinion on a "Hip Flask" defence to a prosecution under the provisions of the Road Traffic Act, 1972 (as amended).