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Baron Esquivias, Gonzalo, Martínez Alday, Jesús, Martín, Alfonso, Moya, Ángel, García Civera, Roberto, López Chicharro, María Paz, Martín Mendez, María, Archo, Carmen del and Laguna, Pedro (2010). Epidemiological characteristics and diagnostic approach in patients admitted to the emergency room for transient loos of consciousness: Group for Syncope Study in the Emergency Room (GESINUR) study. "Europace", v. 12 (n. 6); pp. 869-876. ISSN 1099-5129. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euq018.
Title: | Epidemiological characteristics and diagnostic approach in patients admitted to the emergency room for transient loos of consciousness: Group for Syncope Study in the Emergency Room (GESINUR) study |
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Item Type: | Article |
Título de Revista/Publicación: | Europace |
Date: | June 2010 |
ISSN: | 1099-5129 |
Volume: | 12 |
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Freetext Keywords: | Syncope, Emergency department, Transient loss of consciousness |
Faculty: | E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM) |
Department: | Otro |
Creative Commons Licenses: | Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial |
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Aims: To assess the clinical presentation and acute management of patients with transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC) in the emergency department (ED).
Methods and results: A multi-centre prospective observational study was carried out in 19 Spanish hospitals over 1 month. The patients included were 14 years old and were admitted to the ED because of an episode of T-LOC. Questionnaires and corresponding electrocardiograms (ECGs) were reviewed by a Steering Committee (SC) to unify diagnostic criteria, evaluate adherence to guidelines, and diagnose correctly the ECGs. We included 1419 patients (prevalence, 1.14%).ECG was performed in 1335 patients (94%) in the ED: 498 (37.3%) ECGs were classified as abnormal. The positive diagnostic yield ranged from 0% for the chest X-ray to 12% for the orthostatic test. In the ED, 1217 (86%) patients received a final diagnosis of syncope, whereas the remaining 202 (14%) were diagnosed of non-syncopal transient lossof consciousness (NST-LOC). After final review by the SC, 1080 patients (76%) were diagnosed of syncope, whereas 339 (24%) were diagnosed of NST-LOC (P , 0.001). Syncope was diagnosed correctly in 84% of patients. Only 25% of patients with T-LOC were admitted to hospitals.
Conclusion Adherence to clinical guidelines for syncope management was low; many diagnostic tests were performed with low diagnostic yield. Important differences were observed between syncope diagnoses at the ED and by SC decision.
Item ID: | 16590 |
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DC Identifier: | https://oa.upm.es/16590/ |
OAI Identifier: | oai:oa.upm.es:16590 |
DOI: | 10.1093/europace/euq018 |
Official URL: | http://europace.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2... |
Deposited by: | Memoria Investigacion |
Deposited on: | 22 Jul 2013 17:14 |
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2016 16:55 |