Codeine/paracetamol and driving performance in a highway environment as a function of age
BERTHELON ; AMATO ; MARIE ; DENISE ; BOCCA
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
BERTHELON ; AMATO ; MARIE ; DENISE ; BOCCA
Résumé / Abstract
Epidemiological studies revealed that drug consumption is suspected to increase the risk of driving accidents (Barbone et al., 1998). Among drugs, the association of codeine/paracetamol who is considered one of the most efficient to ease pain as compared to other analgesics of level II in the WHO classification, could decrease vigilance and thus impair driving performance (Bachs et al., 2009). However, few experimental study evaluated codeine effects on driving, and they only tested these effects on young healthy drivers whereas elderly people represent a large part of drivers and are used to consume this type of drugs. The aim of this work is to compare the behavioural effect of therapeutic dose of codeine/paracetamol on simulated driving in subjects of different age.
Editeur
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medecine
