Driving After Total Ankle Arthroplasty:

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics

ElizabethMcDonald¹ 

关键词: return to driving;    total ankle arthroplasty;    brake reaction time;    braking;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2473011418S00084

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Category:AnkleIntroduction/Purpose:With the increase in number of total ankle arthroplasty surgery, physician guidelines on when to begin to consider patients’ return to driving is valuable. The ability to accurately and efficiently determine when a patient can return to driving is important both from a patient safety and a medicolegal perspective. The purpose of the study was to determine when patients’ brake reaction time (BRT) returns to a safe value after right total ankle arthroplasty. We also aimed to identify predictive factors that may identify those patients who may not be safe to drive.Methods:After institutional review board approval, fifty-five patients undergoing right total ankle arthroplasty were recruited prospectively. Patient demographics include an age range of 43 to 83 years (median 63 years), of which 31 were male (56%) and 24 were female (44%). BRT was tested at six weeks and repeated weekly until patients achieved a passing BRT. A control group of twenty healthy patients was used to...

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