晕厥病人的评估PPT.ppt

Syncope should be considered as a symptom not as a diagnosis. The basis of syncopal symptoms should be sought through careful evaluation. Only after a cause is established can an effective treatment regimen be developed. This slide provides a simple classification of the principal causes of loss of consciousness. This scheme lists the causes of syncope from the most commonly observed (Left) to the least common (Right). This ranking may be helpful in thinking about the strategy for evaluating syncope in individual patients. Within the boxes,the most common causes of syncope are indicat