Congratulation Stanley Kobierowski! Highest blood alcohol level and you're not dead!

[smoothmoniker]

So, am I right in assuming that the blood alcohol level is just a percentage by volume?

If so, blowing a .500 means at least 2.5 liters of pure alcohol running through your veins! 22 shots per liter, call it 80 proof spirits or so,

2.5 x 22 x .8 ...

That's 44 shots of tequila!

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

So, am I right in assuming that the blood alcohol level is just a percentage by volume?

If so, blowing a .500 means at least 2.5 liters of pure alcohol running through your veins! 22 shots per liter, call it 80 proof spirits or so,

2.5 x 22 x .8 ...

That's 44 shots of tequila!

I think that figure is one half of one percent, isn't it? I don't think you can replace half of your blood volume with alcohol (or add 50% more fluid) and survive, can you?

Whatever the case, Stan has had quite an achievement, and I'd like to buy him a drink to celebrate!

[HungLikeJesus]

From Wikipedia:

Blood alcohol content (BAC) or blood alcohol concentration is the concentration of alcohol in blood. It is usually measured as mass per volume. For example, a BAC of 0.02% means 0.2 ‰ (permille) or 0.02 grams of alcohol per 100 grams of individual's blood, or 0.2 grams of alcohol per 1000 grams of blood. Blood alcohol concentration is measured in many different units and in many different fashions, but they are all relatively synonymous for each other.

This seems inconsistent. It says BAC's measured as mass per volume, then gives the ratios as mass per mass.

Edit:
Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors

Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening. The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and doctors said Tuesday.

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