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January 1, 2014European Cardiology ReviewOpen Access

Syncope in the Elderly

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Population

Elderly patients presenting with syncope

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Authors

HBHelen O’ BrienRKRose Anne Kenny

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Overview

Urges inclusion of syncope in elderly fall evaluations; leaves open evidence-based protocols for multi-morbid patients.

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Population
Elderly patients presenting with syncope

Syncope in the elderly often presents atypically (e.g., as falls without prodrome) and requires prompt assessment due to high morbidity, multi-morbidity, and polypharmacy.

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Brien et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a711cd8febe604dd709d2ebhttps://doi.org/10.15420/ecr.2014.9.1.28
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