Careful evaluation of a patient's clinical history and physical examination can help establish the underlying cause of syncope in more than 25% of cases, and can guide investigation strategies in ...

An ECG taken in the emergency room revealed right ... the episode that brought him to the hospital was most likely a rhythmogenic syncope that at first resembled an epileptic seizure.

Since the patient described had a high risk of malignant arrhythmias, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was indicated and implanted. This is the only effective treatment currently ...

10% involved patients who had been referred after presenting to an emergency department with an episode of pre-syncope or syncope (typically vasovagal in description) where their first ever ECG ...

The diagnosis is made clinically when a young person with a structurally normal heart has syncope or cardiac arrest during exercise or emotional upset. The ECG would show a wide-complex QRS with a ...