Syncope in the pediatric emergency department - Can we predict cardiac disease based on history alone?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Hurst, David ^a   Hirsh, Daniel A ^b   Oster, Matthew E ^a,c   Ehrlich, Alexandra ^a   Campbell, Robert ^a   Mahle, William T ^a   Mallory, Michael ^b   Phelps, Heather ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children s Center for Digestive Healthcare   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac syncope; electrocardiogram; long QT syndrome; pediatric emergency department; screening; supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SYNCOPE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYOCARDITIS; NEUROCARDIOGENIC SYNCOPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; CHEST PAIN; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXERCISE; HOSPITAL; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

ADOLESCENT; CHEST PAIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MYOCARDITIS; PRODROMAL SYMPTOMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 84933278499     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2014.12.068     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. J.B. Anderson, R.J. Czosek, J. Cnota, K. Meganathan, T.K. Knilans, and P.C. Heaton Pediatric syncope: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey results J Emerg Med 43 2012 1 9
2. R.L. Geggel Conditions leading to pediatric cardiology consultation in a tertiary academic hospital Pediatrics 114 2004 e409 e417
3. M.M. Massin, S. Malekzadeh-Milani, and A. Benatar Cardiac syncope in pediatric patients Clin Cardiol 85 2007 81 85
4. I. Bo, N. Carano, and A. Agnetti Syncope in children and adolescents: a two-year experience at the Department of Paediatrics in Parma Acta Biomed 80 2009 36 41
5. S.A. Strickberger, D.W. Benson, and I. Biaggioni AHA/ACCF scientific statement on the evaluation of syncope: from the American Heart Association Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and Stroke, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdi J Am Coll Cardiol 47 2006 473 484
6. L.A. Steinberg, and T.K. Knilans Syncope in children: diagnostic tests have a high cost and low yield J Pediatr 146 2005 355 358
7. Q. Zhang, J. Du, C. Wang, Z. Du, L. Wang, and C. Tang The diagnostic protocol in children and adolescents with syncope: a multi-centre prospective study Acta Paediatr 98 2009 879 884
8. S. Ritter, L.Y. Tani, S.P. Etheridge, R.V. Williams, J.E. Craig, and L.L. Minich What is the yield of screening echocardiography in pediatric syncope? Pediatrics 105 2000 e58
9. E.V. Saarel, C.B. Stefanelli, P.S. Fischbach, G.A. Serwer, A. Rosenthal, and M. Dick Transtelephonic electrocardiographic monitors for evaluation of children and adolescents with suspected arrhythmias Pediatrics 113 2004 248 251
10. D.J. Driscoll, S.J. Jacobsen, C.J. Porter, and P.C. Wollan Syncope in children and adolescents J Am Coll Cardiol 29 1997 1039 1045
11. J.T. Tretter, and R.-E.W. Kavey Distinguishing cardiac syncope from vasovagal syncope in a referral population J Pediatr 163 2013 1618 1623.e1
12. Q. Zhang, L. Zhu, and C. Wang Value of history taking in children and adolescents with cardiac syncope Cardiol Young 23 2013 54 60
13. C.L. Johnsrude Current approach to pediatric syncope Pediatr Cardiol 21 2000 522 531