You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can you tell whether you or someone else who has fainted should go to the ...

Fainting takes different forms, a heart doctor says; a drop in blood pressure can cause it – or it can be a sign of a serious ...

This reaction is known as a vasovagal syncope episode, also known as fainting. Vasovagal syncope is a temporary loss of consciousness. The vasovagal response, in which your blood pressure suddenly ...

Syncope is most common in the young and the old, with an incidence peak at around 15 years of age, particularly in women; subsequently, there is a progressive increase in frequency over the age of ...

Syncope is a frequent cause for emergency consultation and hospital admission; it is also an indicator of reduced survival rate among older adults. The differential diagnosis may be large ...

Researchers compare GAD-7 with clinical identification as a means of anxiety screening among adolescent syncope patients.

A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy, as well as an 8-mm nodule in the right lower lobe.

Vasovagal syncope is the medical term for the most benign kind of fainting, i.e. simple fainting without a serious underlying ...

THE SPECIFIC DIAGNOSIS SYNCOPE, ACCORDING TO UNMC DOCTOR DANIEL ANDERSON’S TESTIMONY, SYNCOPE MEANS A RHYTHMIC CHANGE WHERE SOMEONE PASSES OUT OR COULD FAINT. ANDERSSON TESTIFIED CARLSON IS A ...

Also known as heat syncope, fainting is common in summer when the temperatures go extremely high. According to experts, high heat leads to excessive stress on the body, along with dehydration due ...

To our knowledge the use of a tilt table to ascertain the effect of a distended bladder and urgency in the orthostatic position in a patient with micturition syncope has not been reported.

VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE, OR SPONTANEOUS FAINTING AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. PROSECUTORS THEN HAD A REBUTTAL, SAYING THE DEFENSE IS TRYING TO DISTRACT THE JURY FROM THE CASE, BLAMING EVERYONE BUT THEIR ...