Syncope. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Robert Sheldon.
• Other Names: Sheldon, Robert S
• Contents: Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Forthcoming Issues; Foreword; Syncope-Now in Its Golden Era; Syncope; Introduction; The challenge of diagnosis; The patient perspective; Nondiagnosis following dismissal of symptoms; Misdiagnosis after a seizure; Nondiagnosis after a fall; Encouraging an appropriate multidisciplinary approach; Equipping and empowering patients; Blackouts Checklist; Approach to the Patient with Syncope; Introduction; Venues; Presentations; Diagnosis: strategy and specific clinical considerations; Specific diagnoses; Summary. Syncope Risk Stratification in the Emergency DepartmentCase history; The first step: identifying patients with syncope; The second step: ruling out causes of syncope that may lead to a rapid clinical deterioration; The third step: stratifying the patient with syncope according to risk; Does hospital admission affect syncope prognosis?; What is the acceptable risk of adverse events in a discharged patient who had syncope?; Are laboratory biomarkers useful for ED clinical decision making?; Syncope Units; Introduction; Evidence of high hospital admission rates for syncope. Syncope management unitsHealth care economics; Summary; Recognizing Life-Threatening Causes of Syncope; Introduction; Prognosis of a patient with syncope; High-risk causes of syncope and when to worry; Diagnostic approach to identifying life-threatening causes of syncope; Specialized testing modalities useful in select patients; Summary; Tilt Table Testing and Implantable Loop Recorders for Syncope; Introduction; Tilt table tests; Implantable loop recorder; Summary; Vasovagal Syncope; Introduction; Historical objections to "the reflex." Continuous monitoring in the laboratory: the advent of noninvasive techniques and microneurographyThe sequence of events accompanying laboratory-induced syncope; Respiration; Cerebral autoregulation; Summary; Confounders of Vasovagal Syncope; Not all syncope is vasovagal syncope, even with a normal heart; Hemodynamic physiology of standing: healthy and orthostatic hypotension; Neurogenic orthostatic hypotension; Summary; Confounders of Vasovagal Syncope; Introduction; Hemodynamic physiology of standing: healthy and POTS; POTS diagnostic criteria; POTS clinical features; POTS pathophysiology. Investigation of POTSNonpharmacologic treatment of POTS; Pharmacologic treatment of POTS; Summary; Carotid Sinus Syndrome; Physiology; Clinical presentation and diagnosis; Epidemiology; Prognosis; Treatment; Summary; Treatment of Neurally Mediated Reflex Syncope; Introduction; Pathophysiology of VVS; Nonpharmacologic interventions; Pharmacologic treatment; Summary; Pacemaker Therapy in Syncope; Introduction; Syncope and Bundle Branch Block; Summary; Syncope 2020; Syncope etiology; Syncope treatment; Health services delivery; Individualized approach to syncope; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (436 pages)
• Subjects: 616.047; Syncope (Pathology); Cardiology; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Cardiology; Syncope (Pathology); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455771615; 1455771619
• Related ISBNs: 9781455770694; 1455770698
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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