Tox Talks: Toxic Alcohols
Originally Published: Modern Resident, Oct/Nov 2010 Original Author: Neal Shelley, MD Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair Just like ethanol, ethylene glycol and methanol cause inebriation and are often ingested by a desperate alcoholic or as a suicide attempt. Whereas ethanol is preferentially metabolized by alcohol dehydrogenase to […]
