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Epilepsy and driving is a personal and public safety issue. A person with a seizure disorder that causes lapses in consciousness may put themselves and the public at risk if a seizure occurs while they are operating a motor vehicle. Not only can a seizure itself cause a car wreck, but anticonvulsants often have side effects that include drowsiness.
22 Μαΐ 2023 · This article looks at everything to know about driving with epilepsy, including potential restrictions, precautions, and what to do if a person has a seizure while driving.
The required seizure-free period before a person with seizure regains their driving eligibility varied significantly between nations. Not all nations have made distinctions between private driving and commercial driving.
In the United States, driving a vehicle is of such paramount importance for people with epilepsy that they list it as their top concern in surveys. 1 However, seizures that occur while a person is driving pose substantial risks for crashes with resulting property damage, injuries, and even deaths. 2–4 This dilemma can be addressed as a ...
17 Οκτ 2022 · With the development of effective antiseizure medications, and the recognition that many patients with epilepsy were well controlled and therefore at low risk for seizures while driving, laws have been successively revised to relax this total restriction.
Tonic-clonic seizures were the most common seizure type described while driving, but with a greater proportion having a focal onset seizure compared to FSOT. 80 % lost control of their vehicle, resulting in a motor vehicle accident in 64 %, in all cases with seizures involving loss of awareness.
Up to 5% of people will experience a seizure during their lives, many of whom are otherwise healthy adults who work and drive. 1 The overall risk of recurrence following a first-ever seizure is approximately 50%, 2 but this varies with time, markedly decreasing with increasing duration of seizure freedom.
