Introduction:
Clinical Impact. From our daily practice in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic, we know that traffic victim patients want precise advice on when to start driving a car again; for many of them regaining their driving ability is crucial to lead a normal life. But our orthopaedic surgeons struggle with giving this advice due to the lack of precise guidelines.

Objectives:
We address this gap by evaluating a car-driving simulator as an intended personalized rehabilitation guidance tool to get traffic victim patients safely back on the road. 1. Technically we are developing a test in a car-driving simulator with different scenarios across routes, environments, road users, brake lengths, and safety situation challenges, using parameters for function and quality. This includes a stress measurement principle found in a publication. 2. Clinically assess the feasibility of the virtual driving test developed in objective 1 with technical staff and health staff who guide traffic victim patients followed in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic. Our research project is expected to have the following impacts:

Results:
We will present a specific implementation platform to scientists and clinicians who are interested in applying a car-driving simulator on other orthopaedic traffic injury victims and in other medical specialties.

Conclusion:
Based on thorough previous testing and current litterature review we are ready to discuss the applied use in terms of clinical guidance at the individual level. Furthermore we will pilot test in the clinicial setting during second and third quarter 2024. Thereby ready for presentation at the conference in autumn 2023


Professor and Consultant, Odense University Hospital/University of Southern Denmark - Odense - Fyn - Denmark