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Can carbon monoxide analysers be fuelled by alcohol intake?

Institute of Social Medicine, Centre of Public Health, Medical University of Vienna & Nicotine Institute, Vienna, Austria

Correspondence to:
Dr Ernest Groman
ernest.groman@meduniwien.ac.at

Keywords: alcohol; carbon monoxide

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The Nicotine Institute¹ (www.nicotineinstitute.com) organises in cooperation with the local health fund (www.noegkk.at) outpatient smoking cessation^2,3 in Lower Austria. Since 2002, approximately 2800 smokers have attended our treatment service. We have had occasional reports of high carbon monoxide (CO) values if smokers have consumed alcoholic beverages. One case drew our attention. The patient affirmed that he had not smoked during the day, but had drunk alcohol heavily, as was apparent from his neurological symptoms and breath. His CO was 87 ppm.

We decided to test the hypothesis that alcohol could affect CO results by testing co-workers at our staff Christmas party. Four of 18 staff were selected. The exclusion criteria were: intending car drivers for that evening (8), and non-drinkers (1). Five staff did not wish to participate.

After an initial wash-in period with a glass (1/8 l) of wine (13% vol alc) we started with . . . [Full text of this article]