Evaluation of patients with "faint" in an American teaching hospital: A dire need for a standardized approach

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 284-290

  Brignole, Michele ^a,b   Malasana, Gangadhar ^a   Sherwood, Randall P ^a   Daccarett, Marcos ^a   Jetter, Tawni L ^a   Hamdan, Mohamed H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

diagnosis; faint

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS MASSAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYNCOPE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; UTAH;

EID: 79952469158     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02968.x     Document Type: Article

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