Heart. Published Online First: 15 August 2008. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.148361
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Is it cardiac? Assessment of syncope with a scoring system
1 Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Eire
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rkenny{at}tcd.ie.
Accepted 5 August 2008
Abstract
In this issue of Heart, Del Rosso A., Ungar A., Maggi R. et al. report the results of a prospective validation study of a clinical assessment tool for adults attending the emergency department with a history of transient loss of consciousness. The scoring system, which ‘cannot be used as a substitute for clinical judgment of the experts’ is geared towards identifying those patients who have a cardiac cause and intends to serve as an aid for junior doctors providing front line care in busy emergency departments. The proposed screening tool has a high sensitivity and relatively high specificity.
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