Martínez RAD, Fernández PMM

Language: Spanish
References: 9
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ABSTRACT

An ophthalmologic evaluation to 329 professional drivers of Guaicaipuro municipality (Miranda State, Venezuela) was carried out from January 2008 to December 2010. Visual acuity, refraction, color vision using the Ximenes's tables (for detecting defects in the red-green axle), and the field of vision by confrontation to evaluating the peripheral vision, are realized. Drivers are questioned about traffic accidents and his characteristics to relate them to possible visual problems in the specialist's consultation. Drivers, principally of private companies or on one's own, drive light cars (33,4 %), followed of trucks (30,7 %), buses ( 18,5 %), motorcycles (10,3 %) and harrows (7,3 %), being majority the masculine sex (305). The age groups of most incidence were 40-49 years (33,8 %) in men and in women 30-39 years (45,8 %). Personal ophthalmologic pathological antecedents were investigated. The majority of the physical examinations were normal (245), standing out besides 11 lenticular opacities, 4 diabetic retinopaty and 1 anoftalmo (deficiency of an eye), affectations that can limit the visual capability. Diagnoses were normal in 125 cases, with esclerohypertensive retinopathy 29, with cataracts 10 and with glaucoma 9. They are apt without crystals the 65,6 %. 32,8 % of the drivers reacquire crystals for working; 46 men and 4 women do not use it. 45 men and 3 women had traffic accidents, with possible visual relation in 57,8 % of the first ones and in 30 % of the second.

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