Key result
Comprehensive syncope evaluation integrates ED risk stratification with novel biomarkers and patch monitors.
Why the study?
Syncope is a common problem for emergency and internal medicine physicians requiring assessment, risk stratification, management, and updated diagnostic approaches including biomarkers and ambulatory patch monitor recording.
This review summarizes the assessment, risk stratification, management, and novel diagnostic tools (such as biomarkers and ambulatory patch monitors) for patients presenting with syncope.
May inform ED syncope protocols; leaves open adoption of biomarkers and patch monitors pending prospective trials.
Syncope is a common problem encountered by both emergency and internal medicine physicians. This review focuses on not only the assessment, risk stratification and management of the syncope patient, but also the latest thinking on diagnostic testing including more novel tools such as biomarkers and ambulatory patch monitor recording.
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Williamson et al. (2015) studied this question. Syncope evaluation in the emergency department and beyond encompasses initial assessment, risk stratification, and novel diagnostic tools including biomarkers and ambulatory patch monitors.
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