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BAC Tracker software is a computer analysis
program that
allows for the most comprehensive estimation of
blood alcohol concentration (BAC) from six
scientific formulae published between 1932 and
2007. BAC
Tracker is the most advanced software in
the industry of conducting blood alcohol
extrapolations employing the latest scientific
data for more accurate and balanced results in the
court room. BAC
Tracker was developed by professionals currently
employed in the forensic sciences
and was originally created
for forensic toxicologists to use as a simpler
and more comprehensive tool for retro- and
antero-grade BAC
extrapolations, but its simplicity and user
friendly nature, available in either a United
States version or International (UK) version, provides an invaluable resource
for attorney’s offices, educational
institutions, and other
forensic laboratories as well.
Three separate types of
extrapolation reports
(forty-two individual reports) can be generated within minutes by BAC Tracker
which are derived from a number of different
published
algorithms. Data input requires only the
individual’s gender, age, weight, height, and
either the number of drinks and rate of
consumption during the scenario or a BAC/BrAC
reading at any time in the scenario. The
software will automatically run the data against
six different formulae which take into account
the individual’s gender, age, weight, height,
body mass index, percent body fat, water content
in blood, water content in fat-free body mass,
total body water, two non-linear rates of
absorption, and three separate rates of
elimination. Further data manipulation can be
applied to both the rate of absorption, either
depending on the type and quantity of food in
the stomach or other factors affecting gastric
motility, and the rate of elimination by
applying broad or narrow ranges to account for
inter- and intra-individual variations in the
human population.
BAC Tracker
further allows users to:
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Track the
BAC of a subject over a course of ten
hours while consuming up to ten separate
ingestions of alcohol of varying
concentrations and volumes (up to 150
individual drinks). |
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Track the
absorption rate of alcohol into the
bloodstream after a specified type of
meal has been consumed. |
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Track the
percentage of alcohol that has been
absorbed into the bloodstream of a
subject at any specified time since an
ingestion of alcohol. |
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Track the
percentage of alcohol absorbed into the
bloodstream of a subject automatically
at six minute intervals immediately
following an ingestion of alcohol. |
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Track the
BAC of a subject at any specified time
following a single ingestion of alcohol. |
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Track the
BAC of a subject at six minute intervals
immediately following an ingestion of
alcohol. |
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Calculate
the number of drinks consumed by a
subject at any time prior to testing the
present BAC level of a subject. |
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Calculate
the mass of alcohol (grams) consumed by
a subject at any time prior to testing
the present BAC level of a subject. |
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Compare
the results of each of the six formulae not only on a single graph
together, but also graphed separately on
individual reports.
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Compare
the uncertainties inherent in the rates
of alcohol absorption and elimination. |
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Generate a
total of three separate report types for
a total of forty-two different
individual reports. |
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