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The paper presents the results of clinical and labour examinations of
51 drivers with cardiac arrhythmia. Long-term postinfarctional ECG mon
itoring was attempted in 30 drivers in the course of driving. The freq
uency of arrhythmia episodes correlated with the presence of extrasyst
ole in acute and subacute period of the disease, anginal functional cl
ass, the size and time of myocardial infarction. Single episodes of ve
ntricular extrasystole registered in the course of driving did not int
erfere with professional activities because such extrasystoles did not
imply the risk of more severe arrhythmia. Labour prognosis in drivers
with frequent, polytopic ventricular extrasystoles or fibrillation wa
s much worse.