The evaluation and treatment of syncope : A handbook for clinical practice

Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology

Chapter 1 Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential
causes

Chapter 2 Whatis syncope and whatis notsyncope: the importance of
definitions

Chapter 3 Pathophysiology and clinical presentation

Chapter 4 Maintaining blood pressure while upright: physiology and
potential for disturbances to cause syncope

Chapter 5 Epidemiology and social costs of syncope

Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy

Chapter 6 Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies

Chapter 7 Initial evaluation of the syncope patient

Chapter 8 The role of the prepared questionnaire in initial
evaluation of transient losses of consciousness

Chapter 9 Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and who
can be managed as an outpatient?

Chapter 10 Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and
clinic (the syncope unit)

Chapter 11 Impact of syncope guidelines on clinical care

Section three: Specific diagnostic procedures

Chapter 12 Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for evaluation
of syncope

Chapter 13 Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation of syncope

Chapter 14 The basic autonomic assessment

Chapter 15 Electrophysiological testing

Chapter 16 Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are they
indicated?

Chapter 17 Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope

Chapter 18 Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope

Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment

Chapter 19 Who to treat

Chapter 20 Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment
strategies

Part 1 Neurally mediated reflex syncope

Part 2 Orthostatic syncope

Part 3 Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction system disease as a primary
cause of syncope

Part 4 Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope

Part 5 Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncope

Chapter 21 Syncope and other causes of transient loss of
consciousness in children, teenagers, and adolescents

Chapter 22 Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications)

Chapter 23 Conditions that mimic syncope

Section five: Selected references since 1990

Index