Medicine

Medical Applications

Breath testing plays a key role in several areas of medicine, for both patient welfare and research into the prevalence of alcohol use and abuse in today’s society

Accident and Emergency

Differential diagnosis of coma
Monitoring recovery from coma in head injury cases
Accident cause investigation
Avoidance of potentially dangerous drug-alcohol interactions
Early detection of a patient’s alcohol problem

Alcoholism Treatment

Regular breath testing of alcohol-problem patients undertaking withdrawal treatment programs provides an effective assurance of compliance: it also easily and objectively detects any deviation from it.

General Practice

Some General Practitioners now breath test patients whom they suspect may be developing an alcohol problem. Any detectable level of alcohol in a person’s body in the morning may suggest heavy consumption the night before, while a high level at any other time is always significant – especially if either or both these situations occur on a regular basis. It is, of course, accepted that the sooner a person’s alcohol problem can be detected, the more chance there is of successful treatment.

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