Dangers of Drunk Driving: • • • • • • • • • • • • “Effects of Low Doses of Alcohol on Driving-related Skills: A Review of the Evidence” by Moskowitz & Robinson “Driver Characteristics and Impairment at Various BAC’s” by Moskowitz & Fiorentino. “Alcohol-Related Relative Risk of Driver Fatalities and Driver Involvement in Fata Crashes in Relation to Driver Age and Gender: An Update Using 1996 Data.” By Zador, Krawchuck & Voas “Legally ‘safe’ blood alcohol concentrations exacerbate performance impairment” by Horne, Reyner & Barrett. “The Effect of Low BAC’s on Driver Performance” by Burns & Fiorentino. “Effects of Alcohol on Driving Performance” by Moskowitz & Burns. “Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of Varying Blood Alcohol Concentrations on Driving Abilities” by Dr. Maurice Dennis. “Alcohol and the driver. Council on Scientific Affairs” Journal of the America Medical Association. “Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs on Driver Performance” by Ogden & Moskowitz. “Sleepiness and Ethanol Effects on Simulated Driving” by Roehrs, Deare, Zorick & Roth. “Sleep, Sleepiness, and Alcohol use” by Roehrs & Roth. “Driving Impairment Due to Sleepiness Is Exacerbated by Low Alcohol Intake” by Horne, Reyner & Barrett. Blood Draw Procedures: • • • • • • “A comparison of Blood alcohol concentration using non-alcohol and alcohol-containing skin antiseptics” by Goldfinger & Schaber. “Alcohol Swabs and Venipuncture” by Perk,Keating,Ward & Peters “Contamination of Blood Specimens for Alcohol Analysis During Collection” by Dubowski & Essery “Dilution of Blood Collected for Medicolegal Alcohol Analysis by Intravenous Fluids” by Wigmore and Yen “Alcohol Swabs and Venipuncture in a Routine Hospital Setting: No Effect on Blood Ethanol Measurement” by Malingre & Kesteren. “Comparison of Blood Ethanol Concentrations in Samples Simultaneously collected into expired and unexpired Venipuncture tubes” by Zitel and Hardin. Stability of Blood Samples After Draw: • • “The effect of heat on Blood Samples Containing Alcohol” by Paul Glover “The effect of Temperature on the Formation of Ethanol by Candida Albicans in Blood by Chang & Kollman”. • • • • • • • “The Effect of Microbial Contamination of the Blood Sample on the Determination of Ethanol Levels in Serum” by Blume & Lakatua “ The Effects of Storage on the Accuracy of Blood alcohol readings” by Anderson, et al “Inhibition of Ethanol Production by saccharomyces cerevisiae in Human Blood by Sodium Fluoride” by Amick & Habben “The Effects of Long-Term Storage on Ethanol Content of Blood Samples” by Blickensderfer & Pridgen “A Study Rebutting the Theory of Neoformation of Alcohol in Blood by Candida albicans and Staphylococcus epidemidis” by Korbin, Musselman& Stout “Ethanol Production by Candid albicans in postmortem human blood samples: Effects of blood glucose level and dilution.” By Yajima,Motani,Kamel,Sato,Hayakawa & Iwase “The Stability of Ordinary Blood Alcohol Samples Held Various Periods of Time Under Different Conditions” by Glendening and Waugh