DUI Breathalyzer Test: Basics of Testing & Toxicology Agenda
- Introduction to Breath Testing (30 minutes)
- Where did it come from? How has it changed?
- What is Infrared Spectrophotometer?
- What is fuel cell analysis
- The Machines (15 minutes)
- Intoxilyzer 5000/ 8000
- Bac Datamaster
- Alcotest 7110
- Intoximeter EC/IR and EC/ IR II
- The Next Wave of Machines
- Reliability of Breath-Testing (15 minutes)
- New Theories / Historic inaccuracies
- Break (15 minutes)
- False Presumptions upon which Breath Testing is Based / Beating Bad Breath (60 minutes)
- Hematocrit
- Body Temperature
- Breath Temperature
- Breathing Pattern
- Blood/Breath Partition Ratio
- Calibration / Henry's Law
- Testing After an Accident
- Other Common Errors affecting Breath Tests (45 minutes)
- Entry of Sample Errors
- Human
- Operator Error
- Subject error
- Environmental
- Mechanical / Electrical
- Analysis of Sample Errors
- Source Code / Machine Errors
- Hearing/Trial Strategies and Conclusion (15 minutes)