Professional paper

Ethanol intoxication treated by haemodialysis

Z. Duraković ; Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti s poliklinikom Rebro Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta i KBC u Zagrebu» i Zavod za kliničko-laboratorijsku dijagnostiku KBC u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
V. Gašparović ; Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti s poliklinikom Rebro Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta i KBC u Zagrebu» i Zavod za kliničko-laboratorijsku dijagnostiku KBC u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
D. Bosnić ; Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti s poliklinikom Rebro Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta i KBC u Zagrebu» i Zavod za kliničko-laboratorijsku dijagnostiku KBC u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
F. Plavšić ; Klinika za unutrašnje bolesti s poliklinikom Rebro Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta i KBC u Zagrebu» i Zavod za kliničko-laboratorijsku dijagnostiku KBC u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper deals with the course of illness in a 68-year-old man who attempted to commit suicide by drinking 1.5 L of a concentrated alcoholic drink (570 ml of ethanol). He was admitted to hospital in a state of the III degree coma, with a serum ethanol concentration of 5.09 g/L. He was treated by the method of extracorporeal haemodialysis for four hours. At the end of two hours ethanol concentration in the serum decreased to 3.46 g/L and at the end of the treatment it was 0.82 g/L. The rate of ethanol clearance reached 260 ml/min. The patients was dismissed from hospital on the fourth day of admittance.

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Hrčak ID:

152913

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152913

Publication date:

10.10.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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