The main aim of this study is to assess the value of creating a "syncope pathway" to optimize diagnostic performance in patients admitted to the emergency department for syncope and not hospitalized, compared with the previous pre-syncope pathway situation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
52
The procedures and investigations proposed for the etiological diagnosis of low-risk or "neither high nor low" syncope and included in the study are those recommended by the European Society of Cardiology. No additional procedures, invasive or non-invasive explorations or blood sampling not provided for as part of routine care will be offered or carried out as part of the study. The only change in practice for patients included in the "syncope pathway The only change in practice concerns the grouping of patients included in the "syncope pathway" into a single day at a day hospital within 10 days of their emergency consultation.
The procedures and investigations proposed for the etiological diagnosis of low-risk or "neither high nor low" syncope and included in the study are those recommended by the European Society of Cardiology.in routine care, medical examinations are carried out by specialists such as cardiologists who do not practice in hospitals
centre hospitalier de Versailles
Le Chesnay, Yvelines, France
etiological diagnosis of synchope
Percentage of patients for whom at least one etiological diagnosis of syncope was identified.
Time frame: 3 months
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