
Method of Forrest for Estimating Widmark's Factor in a Patient
Specialty: | Toxicology Emergency Medicine Critical Care |
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Description: | Widmark's equation uses a distribution factor reflecting the distribution of alcohol in the body. Forrest used a series of equations to estimate the factor based on a person's gender, height and weight. The author is from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, England. |
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