Effects of Alcohol Ingestion on the Production of and Response to Experimental Hemorrhagic Stress

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Abstract
ACUTE blood loss in patients intoxicated with ethyl alcohol is a common medical emergency problem. However, little work has been done to elucidate the effect, if any, of alcohol on the prognosis of such patients. Battey et al.1 reported that severe acute alcohol intoxication resulted in an increased cerebral blood flow, decreased cerebrovascular resistance, decreased cerebral oxygen consumption and a decreased systemic mean arterial pressure in many of their patients. Cournand2 noted that intoxicated victims of accidents were less tolerant to blood loss than nondrinking injured patients. Moss, Chenault and Gaston,3 in an attempt to delineate this problem experimentally, observed . . .

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