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Tag: Medical Review Board
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FMCSA renews Medical Review Board charter for two years
The MRB is composed of five members from medical institutions and private practice. They are tasked with giving advice and recommendations to FMCSA on medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of truckers
December 7, 2017
Channel 19
Thursday roundup: Chiropractors and sleep apnea tests, Rhode Island throws parking bone to truckers
Road report from owner-operator Joe Bielucki on a recently-reopened Rhode Island truck rest area on I-95, and a view on the Medical Review Board’s recent apnea screening/testing recommendation: Should chiropractors be able to order retesting?
October 27, 2016
Voices
Truckers with high BMI would be forced into apnea screening under FMCSA committee recommendations, drivers respond
The committees recommend FMCSA require certain truckers to be screened for sleep apnea based on their BMI and other risk factors. Truckers with a BMI of 33 or higher would also be subject to screening if they meet three other qualifiers, a list that includes being male and being older than 42 — a large demographic among truckers.
October 26, 2016
Business
Sleep apnea guidelines quiz: Find out if you would be referred for apnea testing
If you didn’t take this quiz/survey prior to Overdrive’s recent reporting on results relative to the Medical Review Board’s draft sleep apnea screening protocol, answer the questions to find out whether or not you would be screened for testing if the protocol was in place.
October 24, 2016
Business
Sleep apnea: Problems with one-year medical certification
The Medical Review Board’s preliminary apnea recommendations would enshrine a practice that’s increasingly common with truckers being treated successfully for sleep apnea: a one-year medical certification.
October 20, 2016
Business
Debatable accuracy of hard-fast sleep-apnea screening protocol
Overdrive research suggests that false-positive and -negative screening for apnea has been the case for more than a third of readers who’ve experienced the screening.
October 19, 2016
Business
Apnea’s wakeup call: Survey results show growing testing incidence, potential impacts of new protocol
A new Overdrive analysis suggests at least one in four owner-operators would be screened for sleep apnea testing under proposed guidelines.
October 18, 2016
Business
FMCSA advisory boards will meet this month to discuss sleep apnea screening rule
Two separate FMCSA advisory boards will meet separately and jointly Oct. 24 to focus on recommendations for a rule to require sleep apnea screening and treatment for at-risk drivers.
October 13, 2016
Channel 19
Would you be referred for apnea testing under recent preliminary screening criteria?
Would you fall under the Medical Review Board’s recent preliminary screening recommendations for criteria to refer drivers for sleep apnea testing during DOT physicals? Take this survey to find out.
September 16, 2016
Business
FMCSA: Expect sleep apnea guidance proposal in near term
At the 2012 Truck Driver Social Media Convention, Elaine Papp, chief of FMCSA’s Medical Programs Division, offered insights on the agency’s plan to introduce official sleep apnea guidance.
October 28, 2012
Channel 19
Sleep apnea reg recommendations: Comments closed?
If you’ve missed the news as yet, the recommendations put forward by the joint meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on sleep apnea entered a 30-day comment period late last week. Or did they? The agency sent out updates to various media […]
April 24, 2012
Business
FMCSA withdraws April 19 sleep apnea proposal
After announcing its proposal to adopt recommendations from two of its advisory committees, FMCSA the same day withdrew the proposal.
April 24, 2012
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