Fitness to drive : a guide for health professionals.
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London :
Rsm Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Health and the driving task
- Driver impairment and the risk of a road crash
- Who does what?
- Driving and the clinical consultation
- Age, disability and assessment of needs for mobility
- Rationale for decisions on fitness to drive
- Driving for work
- Vision
- Hearing and other sensory inputs
- Cognitive impairment and dementia
- Mental ill-health
- Nervous system diseases
- Medication
- Alcohol and non-therapeutic drugs
- Injury, surgery and musculoskeletal conditions
- Loss of consciousness or altered awareness
- Seizures and epilepsy
- Tumours and cancers
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Sleep disorders
- Tools for assessment of fitness to drive
- Fitness for other safety-critical tasks.