Study Guide Flashcards
Manufactured Where?
St. Louis Missouri
Manufacturer?
Intoximeters Inc.
Instrument is Called
Intox EC/IR II
Ethyl Alcohol?
The type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages.
Congeners?
Alcoholic beverages contain numerous compounds or impurities.
Proof System?
Proof of alcohol is twice as much as the percentage of alcohol by volume.
Absorption?
The process of moving alcohol from the stomach to the upper small intestine to the blood compartment.
Residual Alcohol?
Is the alcohol which remains in the mouth regardless of how the alcohol is introduced into the mouth, the presence of residual alcohol diminishes below significant levels within 15 minutes.
What is the most significant effect on absorption of alcohol.
The quantity of food substances ingested with or immediately prior to consumption of an alcoholic beverage.
Distribution?
The process of distributing alcohol between blood and all other tissue water compartments.
Water content in men=
65%
Water content in women=
58%
Elimination?
The process of breaking down (liver metabolism) or excreting (lungs and kidneys) alcohol by the body.
Metabolic process accounts for the elimination of about?
90-95% of all consumed alcohol.
What percentage passes through the liver?
90-95%
What remaining percentage of all consumed alcohol is eliminated through excretion evaporation
5-10%
Henry’s Law?
The exchange of alcohol from the blood to the breath.
Temperature of humans exhaled breath?
34 degrees C
What is the only thing that significantly effects elimination?
Time
Appreciable Impairment
A noticeable reduction of ability to perform task at issue.
What is a central nervous depressant?
Ethanol
In order for ethanol to have its desired effect on the body it must be present in the?
Brain
The first effect of alcohol is the impairment of?
Judgement
Data Entry-
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Probation and court order tests
Pre-arrest test
When citation number is not accepted
Data Entry
Unknown DOB?
11/11/1911
Drivers license state?
Automatically defaults to NC type xx if unknown
NC custom programmed test mode sequence for the intox EC/IR II D A A A B A B A
Diagnostic Test Air Blank Accuracy Check Air Blank = make request for test Breath Test Air Blank Breath Test Air Blank/Purge
When do you make request for breath test?
After 2nd air blank
How many tests on one record?
4
Hit _____ for no test
Hit _____ for refusal
N
R
Paper goes into printer?
Feet first jelly down
