Search Tag: Syncope
2022 23 Dec
James Frith is a consultant physician and geriatrician in Newcastle, England. He is also a researcher at the Newcastle University. His academic interests focus on orthostatic hypotension, in particular, the non-drug treatments of orthostatic hypotension that significantly overlap with falls and syncope. HealthManagement. org spoke to Dr Frith on the...Read more
2022 11 Mar
Professor Michele Brignole is the the coordinator of the Faint & Fall programme at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Cardiology of Ospedali del Tigullio, Lavagna, Italy. Prof Brignole’s main fields of research are diagnosis, pathophysiology, therapy of syncope and rhythm disturbances and...Read more
2020 22 Oct
Syncope is a heterogeneous syndrome with complex underlying mechanisms. The spectrum of patients presenting with syncope is broad, which requires appropriate, often individualized diagnosis paths. “Patients presenting with syncope, a sudden transient loss of consciousness, require appropriate, often individualized diagnosis and...Read more
2017 12 Mar
The American College of Cardiology, with the American Heart Association and the Heart Rhythm Society, has released a guideline on the evaluation and management of patients with syncope. The document is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation and HeartRhythm. Until now, there have been no written standards outlining the...Read more