The Evaluation and Treatment of Syncope

Designed for the practitioner, this handbook provides aneasy-to-read overview of how to evaluate and treat patients with ahistory of fainting. The 2nd Edition has been fully revised tocontain all the latest information concerning diagnosis andtreatment. It is based on the 2004 update of the ESC Guidelines onthe Management of Syncope and offers up-to-date direction based oncomprehensive analysis.All chapters share a consistent structure and are concise - onlyessential references are included. However, each chapter comes withsuggestions for further reading and a comprehensive literaturesource is provided separately at the end of the book and dividedinto major interest areas.The ESC Education SeriesThis book is part of the ESC Education Series. The series isdesigned to provide medical professionals with the latestinformation about the understanding, diagnosis and treatment ofcardiovascular diseases. Where available, managementrecommendations are based on the established European Guidelines,which encompass the best techniques to use with each cardiacdisease. Throughout the series, the leading international opinionleaders have been chosen to edit and contribute to the books. Theinformation is presented in a succinct and accessible format with aclinical focus.

Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology.Chapter 1 Syncope: definition, classification, and multiplepotential causes.Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt.Chapter 2 Whatis syncope and whatis notsyncope: the importanceof definitions.J. Gert van Dijk, Adam P. Fitzpatrick.Chapter 3 Pathophysiology and clinical presentation.Wouter Wieling, J. Gert van Dijk, Johannes J. van Lieshout,David G. Benditt.Chapter 4 Maintaining blood pressure while upright: physiologyand potential for disturbances to cause syncope.Christopher J. Mathias.Chapter 5 Epidemiology and social costs of syncope.Rose Anne Kenny, Wishwa N. Kapoor.Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy.Chapter 6 Overview of recommended diagnosticstrategies.Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole.Chapter 7 Initial evaluation of the syncope patient.Antonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni.Chapter 8 The role of the prepared questionnaire in initialevaluation of transient losses of consciousness.Anna Serletis, Robert S. Sheldon.Chapter 9 Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, andwho can be managed as an outpatient?.David G. Benditt.Chapter 10 Organizing management of syncope in the hospital andclinic (the syncope unit).Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole.Chapter 11 Impact of syncope guidelines on clinicalcare.Michele Brignole.Section three: Specific diagnostic procedures.Chapter 12 Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring forevaluation of syncope.Adam P. Fitzpatrick, David G. Benditt.Chapter 13 Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation ofsyncope.David G. Benditt.Chapter 14 The basic autonomic assessment.Richard Sutton, David G. Benditt.Chapter 15 Electrophysiological testing.Fei Lü, Lennart Bergfeldt.Chapter 16 Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are theyindicated?.Lennart Bergfeldt, Piotr Kulakowski.Chapter 17 Neurologic diagnostic procedures insyncope.J. Gert van Dijk.Chapter 18 Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparentsyncope.George Theodorakis.Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, andtreatment.Chapter 19 Who to treat.Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny.Chapter 20 Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation andtreatment strategies.Part 1 Neurally mediated reflex syncope.David G. Benditt, Jean-Jacques Blanc.Part 2 Orthostatic syncope.Angel Moya, Wouter Wieling.Part 3 Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction system disease as aprimary cause of syncope.Angel Moya.Part 4 Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes ofsyncope.Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jan Janousek.Part 5 Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause ofsyncope.J. Gert van Dijk.Chapter 21 Syncope and other causes of transient loss ofconsciousness in children, teenagers, and adolescents.Wouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek.Chapter 22 Syncope in the older adult (including drivingimplications).Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt.Chapter 23 Conditions that mimic syncope.J. Gert van Dijk.Section five: Selected references since 1990.Index