Recommendations concerning driving in patients with syncope

Group 1: private drivers of motorcycles, cars and other small vehicles with and without a trailer; Group 2: professional drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tons or passenger-carrying vehicles exceeding eight seats excluding the driver. Drivers of taxicabs, small ambulances, and other vehicles form an intermediate category between the ordinary private driver and the vocational driver and should follow local legislation.

*Neurally mediated syncope is defined as severe if it is very frequent, or occurring during the prosecution of a ‘high risk’ activity, or recurrent or unpredictable in ‘high risk’ patients (see Part 3, treatment).