Which patients with syncope should be hospitalized? To address this question, San Francisco researchers conducted a prospective, observational study of 684 patients (mean age, 62) who presented to an ...
Adults aged 40 years or older presenting to the emergency department (ED) with presyncope (near-fainting) or syncope (fainting) had similar rates of 30-day serious cardiac outcomes (5.2% vs 4.7%), ...