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Comprehensive and systematic history-taking is essential for evaluating patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to differentiate between cardiac, neurological, and psychogenic causes.
Emphasizes the importance of comprehensive and systematic history taking in patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to differentiate cardiac, neurological, and psychogenic causes.
Supports history-taking in transient loss of consciousness; leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic algorithms.
In clinical practice some patients who present as ‘collapse, ?cause’ will have had an episode of transient loss of consciousness (TLoC). This article will examine the terms used relating to TLoC (referred to in the article by the lay term ‘blackout’), and explore the rationale relating to comprehensive and systematic history taking in this patient group. Cardiac, neurological and psychogenic causes of blackout will also be considered.
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Yaldren et al. (2012) conducted a review in Transient loss of consciousness (blackouts). Structured history-taking was evaluated. Comprehensive and systematic history-taking is essential for evaluating patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to differentiate between cardiac, neurological, and psychogenic causes.
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