Sürücü belgesi sahiplerinin geç dönem görsel yeterlilikleri

Purpose: To evaluate the late term visual adequateness of driver licence holders. Materials;amp;Methods: A total of 160 driving licence holders with a mean age of 48.39 ;plusmn; 10.86 (range, 21 and 73) who attended to our outpatient clinic underwent routine ophthalmologic examination and their driver licence data were evaluated under their consent. Results: The spectacle need for 160 people who got their driving licence with a mean of 19.46 ;plusmn; 10.07 (21-73) years ago was 26/160 (16.25%) by the time they got their licence, whereas 118/160 (73.75%) by the date we evaluated. Six people (3.75%) were not using spectacles although they had refractive errors that should be corrected to be able to drive by law, and 2 people (1.25%) had driving licence although they did not have enough visual acuity to get a driving licence. The first ophthalmologic examination that these 160 cases had was a mean of 12.29 ;plusmn; 8.21 (1-25) years after they got their driving licence. Conclusion: When compared with the time people first got their driving licence, the rate of refractive errors that affected visual acuity was increased 5 fold in a mean of twenty years. In our country the inspection of motor vehicles after the third year of their landing and then in every two years is obligatory. The periodic health evaluation of the drivers are only obligatory if there is a detected progressive eye disease by the time they get their driving licence. As there is no obligation for periodic examination, people who were healthy when getting the driving licence can drive life long, even if they lose the availability of driving. We think that in order to decrease the amount of traffic accidents in our country, not only motor vehicles but also driving licence holders should have obligatory periodic health evaluation. ; Amaç: Sürücü belgesi sahiplerinin geç dönem görsel yeterliliklerinin değerlendirilmesi. Gereç ve Yöntem: Polikliniğimize başvuran yaş ortalaması 48.39 ± 10.86 (21 ila 73 arası) olan sürücü belgesi sahibi 160 kişi rutin göz ...