The evaluation and treatment of syncope
Subtitle: a handbook for clinical practice
By: edited by David G. Benditt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Wiley online library; European Society of Cardiology
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The ESC education series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781444312812
Subjects: Syncope; Syncope (Pathology); Physiopathology; Handbooks, manuals; Therapy; Diagnosis; Guides, manuels; Syncope (Pathologie)
Notes: "A publication based on the Guidelines on management (diagnosis and treatment) of syncope by the European Society of Cardiology (www.escardio.org/knowledge.guidelines)."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-289) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causes / Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt; title: What is syncope and what is not syncope: the importance of definitions / J. Gert van Dijk, Adam Fitzpatrick; title: Pathophysiology and clinical presentation / Wouter Wieling ... [et al.]; title: Maintaining blood pressure whilst upright: physiology and potential for disturbances to cause syncope / Christopher Mathias; title: Epidemiology and social costs of syncope / Rose Anne Kenny, Wishwa Kapoor; title: Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies / Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole; title: Initial evaluation of the syncope patient / Antonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni; title: The role of the prepared questionnaire in initial evaluation of transient losses of consciousness / Anna Serletis, Robert Sheldon; title: Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and who can be managed as an outpatient? / David G. Benditt; title: ^; title: Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit) / Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole; title: Impact of syncope guidelines on clinical care / Michele Brignole; title: Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for evaluation of syncope / Adam Fitzpatrick, David G. Benditt; title: Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation of syncope / David G. Benditt; title: The basic autonomic assessment / Richard Sutton, David G. Benditt; title: Electrophysiological testing / Fei Lu, Lennart Bergfeldt; title: Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are they indicated? / Lennart Bergfeldt, Piotr Kulakowski; title: Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope / J. Gert van Dijk; title: Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope / George Theodorakis; title: Who to treat / Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny; title: Specific causes of syncope and their evaluation and treatment strategies / David G. Benditt ... [et al.]; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers and adolescent / Wouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek; title: Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications) / Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt; title: Conditions that mimic syncope / J. Gert Van Dijk.; title: ^^