Key result
Standardized protocols and risk stratification scores, when used alongside clinical judgment, can help identify syncope patients at high risk for adverse events and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.
This case-based review highlights the importance of standardized initial evaluation and risk stratification in patients presenting with syncope to align with current guideline recommendations.
Syncope represents an important health issue due to the number of emergency room presentations as well as the costs associated either to patient evaluation, or to therapeutic means in certain situations. Despite recent endeavors to optimize the approach to a patient with syncope, this is still heterogeneous in day to day practice and inconsistencies with the current guidelines recommendations are still found. We use a case presentation of a cardiac syncope as a starting point in order to outline the initial evaluation and the serious adverse events risk stratification methods of a patient with syncope.
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Buzea et al. (2013) conducted a review in Syncope. Standardized protocols and risk stratification scores, when used alongside clinical judgment, can help identify syncope patients at high risk for adverse events and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.
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