The purpose of the study was to evaluate the risk of injury due to syncope while driving and the driving habits of patients with neurocardiogenic (vasovagal) syncope. Neurocardiogenic syncope is one of the most common causes of syncope. However, the important issue of driving related injury due to syncope in this population is not well defined. Risk of injury due to syncope while driving and driving behavior was evaluated in 155 consecutive patients (92 women and 63 men, mean age 49 +/- 19 years) with history of syncope in whom hypotension and syncope or presyncope could be provoked during head-up tilt testing. Patients with syncope and positive head-up tilt table test were treated with pharmacological therapy. All participants were asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire regarding any driving related injuries and their driving behavior before tilt table testing and during follow-up. Prior to head-up tilt-testing two patients had syncope while driving, and one of these patients had syncope related injury during driving. The mean duration of syncopal episodes was 50 +/- 14 months (range 12 - 72 months). Of the 155 patients 52 (34 %) had no warning prior to syncope, while 103 (6 %) had warning symptoms such as dizziness prior to their clinical syncope. Following a diagnosis of neurocardiogenic syncope established by head-up tilt-testing, six patients stopped driving on their own. During a median follow-up of 22 months recurrent syncope occurred in five (3.2 %) patients. No patient had syncope or injury during driving. In conclusion, syncope and injury while driving in patients with neurocardiogenic syncope is rare. The precise mechanism of this is unclear but may be related to posture during driving. Consensus among the medial community will be needed to provide specific guidelines in these patients.


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    Titel :

    Driving safety among patients with neurocardiogenic (vasovagal) syncope


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sicherheit beim Fahren bei Patienten mit neurocardiogener (vasovagaler) Syncope


    Beteiligte:
    Bhatia, A. (Autor:in) / Dhala, A. (Autor:in) / Blanck, Z. (Autor:in) / Deshpande, S. (Autor:in) / Akhtar, M. (Autor:in) / Sra, J. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1999


    Format / Umfang :

    5 Seiten, 1 Tabelle, 23 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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