New COTRAN rule of visual acuity evaluation: Impact on facectomy as a rehabilitation instrument to automobile driving
An. Fac. Med. Univ. Fed. Pernamb
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51(2): 154-156, dez. 2006. tab
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: There is a proposition from ABRAMET (Brazilian Association of Traffic Medicine) of new parameters of ophthalmic drivers evaluation approved in CONTRAN (National Traffic Council) similar to international standards. The main purpose of this short report was to compare the number of cataract patients unable to drive due to visual acuity (VA) limitation that after being submitted to facectomy are theoricatilly able to satisfy the actual requirement of the Brazilian Traffic Code and the proposed new rule. It was an interventional case series. All candidates had VA before surgery lower than 20/40 in the best eye. One thousand cataract surgery patients were studied. According the actual rule 61.3% were able to drive after surgery in contrast of 83% with the proposed new rule (p<0.001). The outcome of this study indicates that the new parameters of visual acuity evaluation allow more cataract surgery patients to be approved for vehicular driving
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Assunto principal:
Condução de Veículo
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Transtornos da Visão
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Envelhecimento
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Extração de Catarata
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Acuidade Visual
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Estudos Prospectivos
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Fatores de risco
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
An. Fac. Med. Univ. Fed. Pernamb
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Brasil
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP/BR
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/BR
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