A new definition of syncope - most commonly perceived as an episode of fainting - makes its diagnosis more precise and now dependent on a specific cause. New 2009 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and ...

Excluding any need for emergency medical attention to deal with physical injury, the initial medical evaluation of individuals suspected of having suffered a syncope spell begins with careful medical ...

In the absence of structural heart disease (including a normal ECG), syncope is most often of neurally mediated reflex origin or orthostatic hypotension. As a rule, reflex etiologies predominate in ...