This study is designed to evaluate the accuracy of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline 'red flags' to identify patients at high risk of short term serious outcome when presenting in the emergency department (ED) with Transient Loss of Consciousness (TLoC). Red flags were defined as ECG abnormality, history or physical signs of heart failure, TLoC during exercise, family history of sudden cardiac death at an age \< 40 years and/or an inherited cardiac condition, new or unexplained breathlessness, heart murmur, absence of prodromal symptoms in any patient aged \> 65 years.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
serious outcome
death, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, pulmonary embolism, stroke or transient ischemic attack, subarachnoid or non traumatic cerebral haemorrhage, aortic dissection, new diagnosis of structural heart disease thought to be related to syncope, and significant haemorraghe or anemia requiring blood transfusion, readmission for similar symptoms related to the initial event and acute intervention during hospital admission
Time frame: day 7
serious outcome
death, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, pulmonary embolism, stroke or transient ischemic attack, subarachnoid or non traumatic cerebral haemorrhage, aortic dissection, new diagnosis of structural heart disease thought to be related to syncope, and significant haemorraghe or anemia requiring blood transfusion, readmission for similar symptoms related to the initial event and acute intervention during hospital admission
Time frame: 1 year
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