In practical terms, patients who present with TLOC describe their symptoms in lay terms (which vary from country to country), such as "collapse" or "fall" or "blackout." In such cases, "syncope" is only one possibility; the broad range of potential causes for real or presumed TLOC ...
Additional symptoms following the syncopal event: Confusion Fatigue Injury Bladder or bowel incontinence Recurrent syncope Witnessed signs: Manner in which collapse happened External appearance of individual Estimated duration of loss of consciousness Physical movements noted Any breathing changes seen As...
CONCLUSIONS: Hypoadrenocorticism was the final diagnosis in 1 of 73 dogs presented to a teaching hospital either in a collapsed state or with a previous history of episodes of collapse. No dog presenting as cardiovascularly stable for intermittent collapse was found to have hypoadrenocorticism. ...
Collapse of the right lung a... CP Lau,CK Wong,WH Leung,... - 《Pacing Clin Electrophysiol》 被引量: 24发表: 2010年 Giant unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with complete heart block In this rare case report of giant unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SOVA), a 17-year-old male...
After prostatic massage, some patients exhibit mild or marked vasomotor collapse which in a few instances terminates in syncope. In all cases there is a definite latent period. This observation stimulated our curiosity to determine what ... HAMMER,J H. - 《Journal of the American Medical Associa...
Emergency department management of syncope: need for standardization and improved risk stratification Article28 April 2015 Introduction Transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC) is one of the most common symptoms of patients seeking prehospital emergency medical care and constitutes a major challenge for ris...
This chapter focuses on the management of syncope and collapse in the Emergency Department (ED). Syncope/collapse is a common reason for ED attendance and it presents a major management challenge with regard to the appropriate workup and disposition. Initially a diagnosis of syncope/collapse should...
Syncope is defined as transient loss of consciousness due to reduced cerebral blood flow associated with postural collapse and spontaneous recovery. Symptoms and signs that precede syncope may includedoi:10.1007/978-0-387-88585-8_4M.D. Carlson...
Syncope is defined as transient loss of consciousness due to reduced cerebral blood flow associated with postural collapse and spontaneous recovery. Symptoms and signs that precede syncope may include pallor, diaphoresis, a feeling of warmth, nausea, and visual blurring occasionally proceeding to ...
the autonomic laboratory in the evaluation of syncope/collapse, with the key aims being able to confirm (or exclude) an autonomic condition, to ascertain the cause or associated disorder contributing, and to determine additional factors that aid the management of autonomic mediated syncope/collapse.do...