Do outcomes of near syncope parallel syncope?

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 203-206

  Grossman, Shamai A ^a   Babineau, Mathew ^a   Burke, Laura ^a   Kancharla, Adarsh ^a   Mottley, Lawrence ^a   Nencioni, Andrea ^a   Shapiro, Nathan I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEHYDRATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDARTERECTOMY; FALLING; FAMILY HISTORY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETHARGY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEAR SYNCOPE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WEAKNESS;

BRADYCARDIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 81755167291     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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