Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygenation on Acute Alcohol Intoxication

摘要

A great deal of documentation is available regarding the acute and chronic negative effects of alcohol ingestion on cognitive, intellectual, perceptual, motor, and memory processes, as well as other behavioral and physiological functions, particularly as these abilities and processes relate to driving and traffic safety. And for at least forty years scientists have been studying the rate at which alcohol is absorbed into the blood stream, distributed throughout the body. There has been a continuing interest in the relationship between blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and the ability to perform a variety of complex and simple tasks, and a pursuit of the chimerical 'sobering up' agent (from black coffee to cold showers) that will accelerate the metabolism and excretion of alcohol and rapidly return the intoxicated individual to his or her sober state of functioning.