Is there a role for head CT scans when evaluating patients who have experienced a syncopal event? In fact, in 2006, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology stated that a ...

Syncope is relatively common in the emergency department (ED) -- frequency is approximately 1% to 2% of all ED visits, and syncope accounts for roughly the same percentage of hospital admissions. [1,2 ...

Tight Glycemic Control of Little Value Post-Pediatric Heart Op Among patients without previous comorbidity admitted for syncope, there is a significant increased risk of all-cause mortality, stroke, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified 37,017 patients from the Danish National Patient Register admitted with a first-time ...

New syncope guidelines released this week by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) boost certain recommendations and demote others, but according to members of the writing group, they represent the ...

The Canadian Syncope Risk Score (CSRS) is an accurate validated prediction score for emergency department patients with unexplained syncope. These are the results of a study titled Multivariable risk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pulmonary embolism appears to be rare in patients presenting with syncope to the ED, according to data published ...

Newly published guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) support cardiac monitoring devices in evaluating ...

Syncope is most commonly perceived as an episode of fainting. Now a new definition makes its diagnosis more precise and now dependent on a specific cause. Syncope is most commonly perceived as an ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the publication of data showing that use of its Reveal ® family of Insertable Cardiac Monitors led to diagnosis and specific ...

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Help Dr. Lisa Sanders get to the bottom of unsolved medical mysteries for a future documentary show. This week: Can you diagnose a young man’s repeat syncope? Help Dr. Lisa Sanders get to the bottom ...