HEART INFARCT PATIENTS AS CAR DRIVERS

The author discusses the question of whether persons who have suffered a heart infarct represent a greater risk factor in traffic than healthy individuals. An investigation was made of 50 persons. The period since the infarct ranged from one month to over one year. The patients examined wore an ECG tape recorder for 24 hours. All of them drove a car, both in city traffic and on country roads for 3.5 hours on average. In no case did car driving give rise to an ECG picture which diverged from that seen in other daily activities. /Author/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract #1631, Excerpta Medica, Sec. 35, V.6.5, p 332, 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Swedish Medical Association

  P.O. Box 5610
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Ohlsson, O
• Publication Date: 1975

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 3075-77
• Serial:
  • Laekartidningen
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 33
  • Publisher: Svenska Laekarfoerbundet
  • ISSN: 0023-7205

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Heart; Highway safety; Patients; Tape recorders; Traffic crashes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141698
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Safety Council Safety Research Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1977 12:00AM