Driving Fitness

[Fitness for automobile driving after inhalation narcosis].

[Automobile driving fitness of patients with nystagmus].

BACKGROUND By law, applicants for driver's licenses not only have to have sufficient vision, but also have to use this sight reliably. The nystagmus patient takes advantage of ocularly induced head turns and other forms of compensation. In the approved test procedures he is deprived of such compensations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The eye movements of a nystagmus patient were recorded oculographi...

[Automobile driving simulation for diagnosis and therapy of driving fitness in neurologic disorders].

Driving fitness and cognitive impairment: issues for physicians.

AS THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONtinues to age, society will be faced with increasing numbers of older drivers, some of whom may be cognitively impaired. In their role identifying cognitive impairment and caring for these patients, physicians will increasingly face the need to assess risk and intervene, if necessary. However, research has yet to determine the level of cognitive impairm...

Driving to distraction--certification of fitness to drive with epilepsy.

Assessment of medical fitness to drive can be a sensitive and difficult task, particularly when it involves a condition such as epilepsy, where impairment is intermittent. The patient, their doctor and the driver licensing authority (DLA) each have responsibilities, both to the patient and to the wider community of road users. DLAs in Australia have shifted most of the responsibility for determ...