The Evaluation and Treatment of Syncope: A Handbook for Clinical Practice

By Richard Sutton, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Michele Brignole

Book Overview

This handbook is a practical consideration of the most important clinical aspects related to the evaluation and treatment of patients with syncope. Questions asked include: What are the diagnostic criteria for causes of syncope? What is the preferred approach to the diagnostic work-up in various subgroups of patients with syncope? How should patients with syncope be risk stratified? When should patients with syncope be hospitalized? and Which treatments are likely to be effective in preventing syncope recurrences? This book attempts to present this information in a succinct form. It is directed toward practicing physicians who encounter syncope patients. It should have particular value to practitioners in emergency medicine, primary care, internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics and cardiology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405103744
• ISBN13: 9781405103749
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.8" x 6.5"