November 29, 2004-- Designating an area in the emergency department (ED) for syncope evaluation improves diagnostic yield and reduces hospital admissions and length of hospital stay without adversely ...

Syncope is a common clinical problem that reduces quality of life and can be difficult to treat. By age 70 about half of the population will have experienced transient loss of consciousness at least ...

‘The eyes see what the brain knows.’ This old adage, famous in the echelons of medicine, highlights why syncope is important in clinical medicine, for it is often missed while evaluating a patient.

We evaluated the incidence, specific causes, and prognosis of syncope among women and men participating in the Framingham Heart Study from 1971 to 1998. Of 7814 study participants followed for an ...

Patients commonly present with syncope at emergency departments and other facilities for urgent care. Syncope is understood by physicians to be a transient, self-terminating period of cerebral ...

A 47-year-old man presenting with C7 ASIA B tetraplegia for 9 months, developed episodes of severe hypotension and occasional syncope following intermittent catheterisations. These episodes were ...

THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...