Mohammad
Your post
led to an interesting discussion today in my work group. A colleague pointed me
to a couple of interesting papers of which you may find useful
Along with
these papers may I suggest plating the blood sample for microbes or at the
least inoculating a Thiol broth tube to r/o gram negative and gram positive
bugs
Peace
Joe
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Subject: Postmortem blood sample
stability for measuring ethanol
Dear All,
What is the stability of ethanol in postmortem blood samples if
they are kept for 3 months in the fridge prior to measuring ethanol?
thanks
Mohammad
Dr. M A Al-Jubouri, MB ChB, MSc, FRCP Edin, FRCPath
Consultant Chemical Pathologist