Syncope is a temporary loss of consciousness that happens due to a decrease in blood flow to your brain. It’s more commonly known as fainting. Fainting accounts for between 3 and 5 percent of ...

In the absence of structural heart disease (including a normal ECG), syncope is most often of neurally mediated reflex origin or orthostatic hypotension. As a rule, reflex etiologies predominate in ...

Syncope is relatively common in the emergency department (ED) -- frequency is approximately 1% to 2% of all ED visits, and syncope accounts for roughly the same percentage of hospital admissions. [1,2 ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

For some people, just coughing, having a bowel movement, or even swallowing can cause them to faint. Micturition syncope is the medical term for fainting (syncope) while urinating or right after ...

Syncope in pulmonary embolism (PE) could be the first sign of haemodynamic compromise. We aimed to investigate pathomechanisms of syncope and its impact on mortality. For this study, patients (aged ≥ ...

Syncope should not be ignored as no episode of losing consciousness is normal, says expertiStock Fainting is a temporary loss of consciousness that results in a fall if a person is upright, and it is ...

Common triggers for vasovagal syncope include extreme heat and dehydration. Fainting episodes occur most frequently in people younger than 40 years old. Vasovagal syncope is usually not dangerous, but ...

A syncope is the clinical name given to a brief blackout (visual greyout) or an episode of fainting or momentary collapse. It is triggered when the brain does not receive enough blood for a short ...

Pregnant women who experienced episodes of syncope -- or fainting -- had higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as postpartum cardiovascular events, researchers found. Women who ...

it’s important to know some of the most serious heat-related illnesses and the symptoms that go with them.

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