Cardiovascular pharmaceuticals: a risk while driving vehicles
Alconero Camarero, A.R.; Sangrador Rasero, A.; Casaus Pérez, M.ía.; Mirones Valdeolivas, L.E.; Muñoz Cacho, P.
Revista de Enfermeria 29(12): 6-10
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0210-5020 PMID: 17260571 Document Number: 604615
To categorize cardiovascular pharmaceuticals according to their respective effect on one's capacity to drive a vehicle. an analysis of the technical file for 299 pharmaceutical products belonging to 1 lsubgroups inside the main category of therapeutic products related to the cardiovascular apparatus. Information compiled includes: the existence, or lack of, a section which warns of the possible effects of the medication on a person's capacity to drive a vehicle; in those affirmative cases, a statement specifying those effects. 32.1% of pharmaceutical products do not comply with the existing legislation and approximately half of those pharmaceutical products do not have a section on their effects on a person's capacity to drive a vehicle, or they state these products have an effect but do not bear an influence even though they can provoke important effects.