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Syncope

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Clinical features

Ask about the syncopal episode and situation d, particularly:
  • any nausea or vomiting before collapse a

Why?

Lack of nausea and vomiting increases the risk of an arrhythmia

Patient Prognostic Factor Outcome CER RR
(95% CI)
NNF+
(95% CI)
unexplained syncope a absence of nausea or vomiting before syncope
independent
syncope due to cardiac arrhythmia
at 12 months
20% 7.1
(1.6 to 33.3)
2
(1 to 12)
 
 

Expiry date: June 2004
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Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   W N   Kapoor
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , B   Phillips , CJ   Wotton