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alcohol levels - Sue


Posted: Dec 15, 2009

If someone has an alcohol level of 210, how do you write that?  Is it just 210 or is there a decimal point in there.   TIA

blood alcohol content - elaine

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is expressed either as percent, or mg/mL. Hard to know how doc wants to express this value.


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