NCT02368158

Reha Drive: Predictors of Fitness to Drive a Car for Cardiologic Patients and Determination of Vital Signs

Reha Drive: Predictors of Fitness to Drive a Car for Cardiologic Patients in Rehabilitation and Acute Clinic and Contactless Determination of Vital Signs Via Camera

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study predictors of fitness to drive a car in cardiologic patients after acute intervention and discharge from hospital to home or rehabilitation are determined in addition to possible automotive monitoring of vital signs via contact less sensors.

Detailed description

Increasing numbers of elderly people with cardiovascular diseases and the wish to drive a car need recommendations corresponding to fitness of driving after their discharge from hospital to home or rehabilitation. A policy paper of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) of 2010 discusses the aptitude of driving a car of cardiovascular patients on experience but only little trial data.Therefore predictors of reduced fitness to drive a car are determined via medical data in comparison to data elevated while "driving" in a simulator and evaluated via Lane Change Test (LCT). Also monitoring of the fitness of driving in the car, automotive monitoring via contactless sensors, could be helpful for judgement.Therefore possible evaluation of heart and breathing rate will be examined with contactless measurements via video camera.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Driving simulation with elevation of medical data in comparison to Lane Change Test plus automotive monitoring via contactless sensors	During a driving simulation medical data are elevated such as electrocardiography (ECG), heart rate breathing rate and oxygen saturation and compared to data of the performed Lane Change Test as a measurement for the quality of driving. Hereby the deviation of the lane from baseline during driving and ordered lane change via signs are determined also when performing cognitive and visual tasks. Also the simulation is simultaneously accompanied by monitoring via contactless camera usage in regard to possible determination of heart and breathing rate according to Eulerian Magnification Method

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2015-02-20
• Last updated: 2015-09-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany