TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Alcohol as a trigger for medical emergencies
JO  - Substance use and misuse
A1  - Borges, Guilherme L. G.
A1  - Cherpitel, Cheryl
A1  - Orozco, Ricardo
A1  - Macdonald, Scott
A1  - Giesbrecht, Norman
A1  - Moskalewicz, Jacek
A1  - Swiatkiewicz, Grazyna
A1  - Cremonte, Mariana
SP  - 484
EP  - 489
VL  - 48
IS  - 7
N2  - In this paper, our goal is to report relative risks of the impact of alcohol consumption 6 hours prior to medical emergencies presenting in the emergency department for 8,346 patients in seven countries using data from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project. We found that alcohol increased the risk of a medical emergency by 2.17 times (confidence interval: 1.78-2.65), and those without a regular pattern of heavy drinking and those younger showed a greater risk. Acute alcohol is associated not only with injury but also with medical emergencies. More studies are needed on the acute role of alcohol in medical emergencies, preferably with data on the type of medical emergencies.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1082-6084
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.778277
ID  - ref1
ER  -