Franche-Comté. Driving after a stroke or TIA: "We should support patients rather than stigmatize them."

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Franche-Comté. Driving after a stroke or TIA: "We should support patients rather than stigmatize them."

Franche-Comté. Driving after a stroke or TIA: "We should support patients rather than stigmatize them."

Dr. Benjamin Bouamra, coordinating physician for the Franche-Comté neurological emergency network, believes that the medical committee that decides on fitness to drive should separate the files of stroke victims from criminal files.
Dr. Benjamin Bouamra:
Dr. Benjamin Bouamra: "A stroke is often a difficult time for the family. These patients are suffering from this chronic illness; there's no need to make them feel any more guilty." Photo: Franck Lallemand
Can you first explain to us what the difference is between a stroke and a TIA?

"Strokes include three types of pathologies: ischemic strokes or cerebral infarctions, which represent the most numerous cases and are characterized when an artery that vascularizes the brain is occluded; hemorrhagic strokes (or intracerebral hematomas), when an artery in the brain ruptures; and finally, TIAs (which are therefore strokes, cerebrovascular accidents). This also involves an artery that is occluded but in a transient manner, without causing damage to the brain and with clinical signs that resolve quickly (in less than an hour). "

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