Title: Syncope clinic: Better results by an integral approach - 2

Presentor(s)	F. Ammirati (IT)
Episode	17
Year	2007
Duration	12:35

Shownotes    At the present time diagnosing syncope is still challenging. This is mainly due to the lack of a gold standard test useful to achieve a correct diagnosis of syncope and to the inappropriate and over-utilization in everyday practice of many clinical and instrumental tests without a methodological approach despite the development of several clinical guidelines. This leads to an expensive management of syncope associated with a poor outcome resulting in a high percentage of syncopal spells which remain unexplained at the end of a non standard diagnostic work-up (~30%).