TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - Cardiovascular pharmaceuticals: a risk while driving vehicles JO - Revista de Enfermeria A1 - Alconero Camarero, Ana Rosa A1 - Sangrador Rasero, Ana A1 - Casaus Pérez, Maria A1 - Mirones Valdeolivas, Luz Elena A1 - Muñoz Cacho, Pedro SP - 6 EP - 10 VL - 29 IS - 12 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To categorize cardiovascular pharmaceuticals according to their respective effect on one's capacity to drive a vehicle. Methodology: 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. CONCLUSIONS: 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.

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