The first updated guidelines for seizures, driving licensure, and medical reporting in nearly two decades reflect a shift toward medical advisory boards to determine driver licensing for individuals with epilepsy and greater physician flexibility and immunity in reporting unsafe drivers.
The consensus position statement was developed by experts from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Epilepsy Society, and the Epilepsy Foundation of America.
This is the first joint position statement on this issue from all three organizations since 1994, updating the AAN’s consensus positions published in 2007.
“There’s been a lot of different pieces of evidence have come in since that time and that growth of evidence most motivated the AAN and the other organizations that an update needed to be issued,”…