No, but easily defined rules about how long between a drink and the surgery is.
Just like pilots. You can drink and be a pilot, just not 8 hours before. How long you have a high varies wildly, and under stress old highs can come back.
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And if you think you can come up with a combination where you didn't die an hour after your drinks and are still drunk 8 hours later, here is a calculator
The rules are --very specifically-- exactly as easily defined for marijuana.
There is no test that can determine when someone last had a drink. The results of a blood alcohol test for someone who had a beer 7 hours and 30 minutes ago will be wildly different than those of someone who skipped dinner and crushed a fifth of whiskey 7 hours and 30 minutes ago...
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Is the fact that alcohol use is easily detected in a field-administered test all that keeps surgeons from doing surgery drunk?
No, but easily defined rules about how long between a drink and the surgery is.
Just like pilots. You can drink and be a pilot, just not 8 hours before. How long you have a high varies wildly, and under stress old highs can come back.
Edit: And if you think you can come up with a combination where you didn't die an hour after your drinks and are still drunk 8 hours later, here is a calculator
http://touchcalc.com/calculators/bac
The rules are --very specifically-- exactly as easily defined for marijuana.
There is no test that can determine when someone last had a drink. The results of a blood alcohol test for someone who had a beer 7 hours and 30 minutes ago will be wildly different than those of someone who skipped dinner and crushed a fifth of whiskey 7 hours and 30 minutes ago...
Any source for the calculations that calculator uses? A quick search says alcohol can be detected in blood up to 12 hours[1].
How many doobies does it take to stay high for 8 hours?
[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojp/181103.pdf