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• Title:Fitness to drive : a guide for health professionals / Tim Carter.
  
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• Author/Creator:Carter, Tim, Dr.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)
  British Medical Association.
  Great Britain. Department of Transport.
  
• Published/Created:London : Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TL152.35 .C37 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Automobile drivers--Health and hygiene.
  Automobile driving--Physiological aspects.
  Traffic safety.
  
• Description:x, 174 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:"This publication has been endorsed by the British Medical Association and its Board of Professional Activities and Board of Science."
  "Department for Transport."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781853156519
  1853156515
  
• Contents:1. Health and the driving task
  2. Driver impairment and the risk of a road crash
  3. Who does what?
  4. Driving and the clinical consultation
  5. Age, disability and assessment of needs for mobility
  6. Rationale for decisions on fitness to drive
  7. Driving for work
  8. Vision
  9. Hearing and other sensory inputs
  10. Cognitive impairment and dementia
  11. Mental ill-health
  12. Nervous system diseases
  13. Medication
  14. Alcohol and non-therapeutic drugs
  15. Injury, surgery and musculoskeletal conditions
  16. Loss of consciousness or altered awareness
  17. Seizures and epilepsy
  18. Tumours and cancers
  19. Cardiovascular disease
  20. Diabetes
  21. Sleep disorders
  App. 1. Tools for assessment of fitness to drive
  App. 2. Fitness for other safety-critical tasks.