The Evaluation and Treatment of Syncope: A Handbook for Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition

by Editor: David Benditt; Editor: Jean-Jacques Blanc (Brest University, Brest, France); Editor: Michele Brignole (Ospedale Riuniti, Lavagna, Italy); Editor: Richard Sutton

• ISBN13: 9781405172356
• ISBN10: 1405172355
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology

Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causes

Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt

Whatis syncope and whatis notsyncope: the importance of definitions

Gert van Dijk, Adam P. Fitzpatrick

Pathophysiology and clinical presentation

Wouter Wieling, J. Gert van Dijk, Johannes J. van Lieshout, David G. Benditt

Maintaining blood pressure while upright: physiology and potential for disturbances to cause syncope

Christopher J. Mathias

Epidemiology and social costs of syncope

Rose Anne Kenny, Wishwa N. Kapoor

Syncope evaluation strategy

Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies

Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole

Initial evaluation of the syncope patient

Antonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni

The role of the prepared questionnaire in initial evaluation of transient losses of consciousness

Anna Serletis, Robert S. Sheldon

Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and who can be managed as an outpatient?

David G. Benditt

Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit)

Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole

Impact of syncope guidelines on clinical care

Michele Brignole

Specific diagnostic procedures

Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for evaluation of syncope

Adam P. Fitzpatrick, David G. Benditt

Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation of syncope

David G. Benditt

The basic autonomic assessment

Richard Sutton, David G. Benditt

Electrophysiological testing

Fei Lü, Lennart Bergfeldt

Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are they indicated?

Lennart Bergfeldt, Piotr Kulakowski

Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope

Gert van Dijk

Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope

George Theodorakis

Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment

Who to treat

Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny

Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment strategies

Neurally mediated reflex syncope

David G. Benditt, Jean-Jacques Blanc

Orthostatic syncope

Angel Moya, Wouter Wieling

Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction system disease as a primary cause of syncope

Angel Moya

Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope

Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jan Janousek

Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncope

Gert van Dijk

Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers, and adolescents

Wouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek

Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications)

Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt

Conditions that mimic syncope

Gert van Dijk

Selected references since 1990

Index

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