TY - JOUR
T1 - Syncope In Pediatric Patients
T2 - A Practical Approach To Differential Diagnosis And Management In The Emergency Department
AU - Fant, Collen
AU - Cohen, Arl
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Syncope is a condition that is often seen in the emergency department. Most syncope is benign, but it can be a symptom of a life-threatening condition. While syncope often requires an extensive workup in adults, in the pediatric population, critical questioning and simple, noninvasive testing is usually sufficient to exclude significant or life-threatening causes. For low-risk patients, resource-intensive workups are rarely diagnostic, and add significant cost to medical care. This issue will highlight critical diseases that cause syncope, identify high-risk "red flags," and enable the emergency clinician to develop a cost-effective, minimally invasive algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric syncope.
AB - Syncope is a condition that is often seen in the emergency department. Most syncope is benign, but it can be a symptom of a life-threatening condition. While syncope often requires an extensive workup in adults, in the pediatric population, critical questioning and simple, noninvasive testing is usually sufficient to exclude significant or life-threatening causes. For low-risk patients, resource-intensive workups are rarely diagnostic, and add significant cost to medical care. This issue will highlight critical diseases that cause syncope, identify high-risk "red flags," and enable the emergency clinician to develop a cost-effective, minimally invasive algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric syncope.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 28362251
AN - SCOPUS:85021857565
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - Pediatric emergency medicine practice
JF - Pediatric emergency medicine practice
SN - 1549-9650
IS - 4
ER -