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John Wiley The Evaluation And Treatment Of Syncope A Handbook For Clinical Practice by Dr David Benditt , Jean-Jacques Blanc , Michele Brignole , Richard Sutton
This volume is based on the ESC Guidelines on the Management (Diagnosis and Treatment) of Syncope and provides specific recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of syncope. It covers the most important clinical aspects related to the evaluation and treatment of patients with this condition: What are the diagnostic criteria for causes of syncope? What is the preferred approach to the diagnostic work-up in various sub-groups of patients with syncope? How should patients with syncope be risk stratified? When should patients with syncope be hospitalised? Which treatments are likely to be effective in preventing syncope recurrences? Information is presented in a succinct style for practising physicians who encounter patients with syncope. It is also of particular value to practitioners in emergency medicine, primary care, internal medicine, neurology and pediatrics. This book is part of the "ESC Education Series". The series is designed to provide medical professionals with the latest information about the understanding, diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases.Where available, management recommendations are based on the established European Guidelines, which encompass the best techniques to use with each cardiac disease. Throughout the series, the leading international opinion leaders have been chosen to edit and contribute to the books. The information is presented in a succinct and accessible format with a clinical focus. IntroductionMichele Brignole Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology Chapter 1: Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causesJean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt Chapter 2: Pathophysiology and clinical presentationWouter Wieling, J. Gert van Dijk, Johannes J. van Lieshout, David G. Benditt Chapter 3: Epidemiology and social costsRose Anne Kenny, Wishwa N. Kapoor Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy Chapter 4: Overview of recommended diagnostic strategiesRichartd Sutton, Michele Brignole Chapter 5: Initial evaluation of the syncope patientPart 1: Medical history and basic laboratory assessmentAntonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni, Richard Sutton, Rose Anne Kenny Part 2: Role of defined questionnaire for diagnosis of syncope and other forms of loss of consciousnessRobert Sheldon Chapter 6: Which syncope patients should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and which can be managed as outpatients?David G. Benditt Chapter 7: Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit)Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole Section three: Guide to selection of diagnostic procedures Chapter 8: Ambulatory electrocardiographic (AECG) monitoring for evaluation of syncopeAdam P. Fitzpatrick Chapter 9: The basic autonomic assessmentRichard Sutton, David G. Benditt Chapter 10: Role of electrophysiologic testing in the syncope evaluationFei Lu, Lennart Bergfeldt Chapter 11: Additional Diagnostic Testing for Selected Syncope PatientsLennart Bergfeldt, David G. Benditt, Piotr Kulakowski, Michele Brignole Chapter 12: Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncopeJ. Gert van Dijk Chapter 13: Contribution of Psychiatric Disorders to Apparent SyncopeGeorge Theodorakis Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment Chapter 14: Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment strategies Part 1: Neurally-mediated reflex syncopeDavid G. Benditt Part 2: Orthostatic syncopeAngel Moya, Wouter Wieling Part 3: Cardiac arrhythmias as a primary cause of syncopeAngel Moya Part 4: Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncopeJean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt Part 5: Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncopeJ. Gert van Dijk Chapter 15: Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers and adolescentsWouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek Chapter 16: Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications)David G. Benditt, Rose Anne Kenny Chapter 17: Conditions that mimic syncopeaJ. Gert van Dijk Chapter 18: Who to treatMichele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny