Syncope: An Evidence-Based Approach, Edition 2

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This heavily revised second edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary review of syncope and how to care for these patients successfully. It contains detailed descriptions of the scientific basis behind the pathophysiology of conditions that cause syncope and collapse. Pathways for optimal clinical management in line with the latest guidelines are reviewed and are accompanied by clearly defined recommendations on how to treat patients with syncope. Common procedures and tests are also discussed along with their indications, methodology, interpretation and limitations.

Syncope: An Evidence-Based Approach systematically describes the pathophysiology and latest clinical management guidelines for treating patients with syncope. It is an essential resource for a variety of medical professionals including cardiologists, emergency physicians, internists, general practitioners, geriatricians, cardiac electrophysiologists, neurologists and psychiatrists.

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Dr. Michele Brignole was the Head of Cardiology at the Arrhythmologic Centre, Ospedali Tigullio in Lavagna, Genoa. At present, he his coordinator of the Faint&Fall Centre at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy. He is member of the European Society of Cardiology and memebr of the board of the GIMSI (Multidisiplinary Italian Association for the stydy of Syncope). He is the chairman of the Task Force on Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology.

Dr. David Benditt received his undergraduate education in electrical engineering and his M.D. from the University of Manitoba. After completing fellowships in general cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Benditt joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota Cardiovascular Division, where he established the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center (CAC). The CAC’s mission supports basic and clinical research on the causes, diagnoses, and treatments of cardiac arrhythmias, syncope (fainting disorders), and sudden cardiac death.

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