Fitness to Drive quick reference for common heart conditions (IMAGE)

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Fitness to Drive quick reference for common heart conditions

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Fitness to Drive quick reference for common conditions: The car represents private driving, and the truck represents commercial driving (for sake of illustration, this is meant to convey all types of commercial licenses). The timeline on the horizontal axis shows when driving can resume. The “stop” sign signifies complete disqualification. CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; ICD, implantable cardioverter defibrillator; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; NSTEMI, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction; NYHA, New York Heart Association; SAVR, surgical aortic valve replacement; STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

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