Ethanol poisoning treated with hemodialysis
Duraković, Z.; Gasparović, V.; Bosnić, D.; Plavsić, F.
Arhiv Za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju 39(1): 47-50
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1254 PMID: 3214296 Document Number: 319934
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.