Evaluation of syncope

American Family Physician

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1492-1500

  Miller, Thomas H ^a,b   Kruse, Jerry E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Quincy Family Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; FALLING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STRESS; SYNCOPE;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 30744467167     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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