The Evaluation and Treatment of Syncope A Handbook for Clinical Practice

by Benditt, David G.; Blanc, Jean-Jacques; Brignole, Michele; Sutton, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781405140300
• ISBN10: 1405140305
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Designed for the practitioner, this handbook provides an easy-to-read overview of how to evaluate and treat patients with a history of fainting. The 2nd Edition has been fully revised to contain all the latest information concerning diagnosis and treatment. It is based on the 2004 update of the ESC Guidelines on the Management of Syncope and offers up-to-date direction based on comprehensive analysis.All chapters share a consistent structure and are concise - only essential references are included. However, each chapter comes with suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive literature source is provided separately at the end of the book and divided into major interest areas.The ESC Education Series This book is part of the ESC Education Series. The series is designed to provide medical professionals with the latest information about the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Where available, management recommendations are based on the established European Guidelines, which encompass the best techniques to use with each cardiac disease. Throughout the series, the leading international opinion leaders have been chosen to edit and contribute to the books. The information is presented in a succinct and accessible format with a clinical focus.

Author Biography

David G Benditt, M.D. was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and an MD degree from the University of Manitoba. Following completion of postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, he moved to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina where he completed a fellowship training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Thereafter, Dr Benditt joined the faculty of the Cardiovascular Division in the Dept of Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he established its training and research program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Benditt is currently Professor of Medicine and Co-director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has been an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and President of both the American Heart Association-Minnesota Affiliate and the North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology. Dr Benditt has recently been honored with the Pioneer in Pacing and Electrophysiology Award of the Heart Rhythm Society. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Cardiology, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Heart Rhythm Society.

Jean-Jacques Blanc, MD. FESC
Professor of Cardiology. Chief Department Cardiology, Brest University. France; Member of the Task Force on Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology.

Michele Brignole, MD, FESC
Chief of Cardiology Department. Ospedale Riuniti. Lavagna. Italy; Chairman of the Task Force on Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors,	viii
Introduction,	xiii
Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology
Chapter 1 Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causes,	3	(7)
Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt
Chapter 2 What is syncope and what is not syncope: the importance of definitions,	10	(6)
J. Gert van Dijk, Adam Fitzpatrick
Chapter 3 Pathophysiology and clinical presentation,	16	(13)
Wouter Wieling, J. Gert van Dijk, Johannes J. van Lieshout, David G. Benditt
Chapter 4 Maintaining blood pressure while upright: physiology and potential for disturbances to cause syncope,	29	(11)
Christopher J. Mathias
Chapter 5 Epidemiology and social costs of syncope,	40	(7)
Rose Anne Kenny, Wishwa N. Kapoor
Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy
Chapter 6 Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies,	47	(7)
Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole
Chapter 7 Initial evaluation of the syncope patient,	54	(9)
Antonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni
Chapter 8 The role of the prepared questionnaire in initial evaluation of transient losses of consciousness,	63	(6)
Anna Serletis, Robert S. Sheldon
Chapter 9 Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and who can be managed as an outpatient?,	69	(6)
David G. Benditt
Chapter 10 Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit),	75	(6)
Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole
Chapter 11 Impact of syncope guidelines on clinical care,	81	(6)
Michele Brignole
Section three: Specific diagnostic procedures
Chapter 12 Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for evaluation of syncope,	87	(9)
Adam Fitzpatrick, David G. Benditt
Chapter 13 Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation of syncope,	96	(6)
David G. Benditt
Chapter 14 The basic autonomic assessment,	102	(11)
Richard Sutton, David G. Benditt
Chapter 15 Electrophysiological testing,	113	(17)
Fei Liu, Lennart Bergfeldt
Chapter 16 Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are they indicated?,	130	(6)
Lennart Bergfeldt, Piotr Kulakowski
Chapter 17 Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope,	136	(6)
J. Gert van Dzjk
Chapter 18 Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope,	142	(11)
George Theodorakis
Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment
Chapter 19 Who to treat,	153	(6)
Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny
Chapter 20 Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment strategies,
Part 1 Neurally mediated reflex syncope,	159	(11)
David G. Benditt, Jean-Jacques Blanc
Part 2 Orthostatic syncope,	170	(15)
Angel Maya, Wouter Wieling
Part 3 Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction system disease as a primary cause of syncope,	185	(20)
Angel Moya
Part 4 Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope,	205	(8)
Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jan Janousek
Part 5 Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncope,	213	(3)
J. Gert van Dijk
Chapter 21 Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers, and adolescents,	216	(16)
Wouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek
Chapter 22 Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications),	232	(10)
Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt
Chapter 23 Conditions that mimic syncope,	242	(17)
J. Gert van Dijk
Section five: Selected references since 1990,	259	(32)
Index,	291