Can benign etiologies predict benign outcomes in high-risk syncope patients?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 592-597

  Grossman, Shamai A ^a   Fischer, Christopher ^a   Kancharla, Adarsh ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a   Mottley, Lawrence ^a   Zimetbaum, Peter ^a   Shapiro, Nathan I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

benign; high risk; outcomes; syncope

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEHYDRATION; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956033965     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: 07364679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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