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Syncope prognosis calculator

by Mark Morgan on October 3, 2010

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Summary: Syncope decision tool. There’s a good table with clinical features and suggested causes of syncope in the reference (link below).*30-day morbidity/mortality includes death, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, significant hemorrhage, anemia requiring transfusion, procedural intervention to treat a related cause of syncope, or any condition that is likely to cause the patient to return to the emergency department
References: Am Fam Physician. 2006 Oct 15;74(8):1367-1370 Quinn J, McDermott D, Stiell I, Kohn M, Wells G. Prospective validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to predict patients with serious outcomes. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;47:448–54

summary, references, & relevant links

Summary: Syncope decision tool. There’s a good table with clinical features and suggested causes of syncope in the reference (link below).*30-day morbidity/mortality includes death, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, significant hemorrhage, anemia requiring transfusion, procedural intervention to treat a related cause of syncope, or any condition that is likely to cause the patient to return to the emergency department

References:
Am Fam Physician. 2006 Oct 15;74(8):1367-1370
Quinn J, McDermott D, Stiell I, Kohn M, Wells G. Prospective validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to predict patients with serious outcomes. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;47:448–54

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