Tabrizi Nasim
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Iran J Neurol. 2019 Oct 7;18(4):159-171.
Driving restriction is a well-known undesirable consequence of epilepsy and causes significant problems regarding independence and employment for epileptic patients. Many countries all over the world have provided comprehensive protocols in this regard with the aim of providing the possibility of less restricted, but safe driving for epileptic patients and also providing the opportunity for uniform decision-making for clinicians. However, the available fitness to drive protocol in Iran still lacks sufficient details and clinicians might encounter serious problems in terms of the driving issue in epileptic patients. In order to provide a uniform protocol containing adequate practical data, a systematic review of literature addressing guidelines about driving and epilepsy and driving laws of different countries for epileptic patients was performed and, after consideration of cultural issues, a practical protocol for Iranian neurologists was suggested.
驾驶限制是癫痫众所周知的不良后果，给癫痫患者的独立性和就业带来了重大问题。世界上许多国家都在这方面提供了全面的方案，目的是为癫痫患者提供限制较少但安全的驾驶可能性，同时也为临床医生提供统一决策的机会。然而，伊朗现有的驾驶适宜性方案仍缺乏足够细节，临床医生在癫痫患者的驾驶问题上可能会遇到严重问题。为了提供一个包含足够实用数据的统一方案，我们对有关癫痫患者驾驶指南和不同国家驾驶法律的文献进行了系统综述，并在考虑文化问题后，为伊朗神经科医生提出了一个实用方案。
