Open AccessSincope: clinic risk determination and therapeutic management
Author(s) -
Fabio Mecca,
Enrica Favaro,
Claudio Marengo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical management issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2283-3137
pISSN - 1973-4832
DOI - 10.7175/cmi.v1i2.609
Subject(s) - medicine , risk stratification , medical history , clinical history , pathological , intensive care medicine , physical examination , syncope (phonology) , pediatrics , medical emergency , surgery
Syncope is a frequent symptom characterizing a wide group of pathologies with very different prognosis. By this reason, it is necessary a careful risk stratification for a better patient management. For this aim medical history and physical examination are fundamental. Diagnostic exams complete and confirm diagnostic suspiciousness formulated by medical history and examination, but rarely give elements for unexpected diagnosis. Correct identification of pathological mechanism of syncope and determination of associated clinical risk allow the best patient management avoiding dangerous discharge but also, in relation to increasingly limited resources, inappropriate hospitalizations