2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope

Authors: Michele Brignole, Angel Moya, Frederik J. de Lange, Jean‐Claude Deharo, Perry Elliott, Alessandra Fanciulli, Artur Fedorowski, Raffaello Furlan, Rose Anne Kenny, Alfonso Martı́n, Vincent Probst, Matthew J. Reed, Ciara Rice, Richard Sutton, Andrea Ungar, J. Gert van Dijk, ESC Scientific Document Group, Adam Torbicki, Javier Moreno, Victor Aboyans, Stefan Agewall, Riccardo Asteggiano, Jean‐Jacques Blanc, Natan Bornstein, Serge Bovéda, Héctor Bueno, Haran Burri, António Coca, Jean‐Philippe Collet, Giorgio Costantino, Ernesto Dı́az-Infante, Victoria Delgado, Faas Dolmans, Oliver Gaemperli, Jacek Gajek, Gerhard Hindricks, Josef Kautzner, Juhani Knuuti, Piotr Kułakowski, Ekaterini Lambrinou, Christophe Leclercq, Philippe Mabo, Carlos A. Morillo, Massimo Piepoli, Marco Roffi, Win K. Shen, Iain A. Simpson, Martin Stockburger, Peter Vanbrabant, Stephan Windecker, José Luis Zamorano, Stephan Windecker, Victor Aboyans, Stefan Agewall, Emanuele Barbato, Héctor Bueno, António Coca, Jean‐Philippe Collet, Ioan Mircea Coman, Verónica Dean, Victoria Delgado, Donna Fitzsimons, Oliver Gaemperli, Gerhard Hindricks, Bernard Iung, Peter Jüni, Hugo A. Katus, Juhani Knuuti, Patrizio Lancellotti, Christophe Leclercq, Theresa McDonagh, Massimo Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Dimitrios Richter, Marco Roffi, Е. V. Shlyakhto, Miguel Sousa‐Uva, Iain A. Simpson, José Luis Zamorano, Franz Xaver Roithinger, Alexandr Chasnoits, Yves Vandekerckhove, Vasil B Traykov, Davor Puljević, Elias Papasavvas, Josef Kautzner, Henning Mølgaard, Mostafa Nawar, Hannu Parikka, Marija Vavlukis, Olivier Piot, Kakhaber Etsadashvili, Thomas Klingenheben, Spyridon Deftereos, László Sághy, Kristján Guðmundsson, Roy Beinart, Antonio Raviele, Ayan Abdrakhmanov, Erkin М Мirrakhimov, Oskars Kalējs, Hisham Benlamin, Aras Puodžiūkynas, Carlo Dimmer, Mark Sammut, Aurica Răducan, Mihailo Vukmirović, S Abdelali, Martin E W Hemels, Kristina H. Haugaa, Rafał Baranowski, Pedro Silva Cunha, Gheorghe‐Andrei Dan, T. V. Tyurina, Luca Bertelli, P Mitro, Ignacio Fernández Lozano, Lennart Bergfeldt, Stefan Osswald, Ben Halima Afef, Halis Özdemir, Phang Boon Lim - European Heart Journal 2018 cited by 1,902

The Task Force for the diagnosis and management of syncope of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Developed with the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Endorsed by: European Academy of Neurology (EAN), European Federation of Autonomic Societies (EFAS), European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM), European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS), European Society of Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) The disclosure forms of all experts involved in the development of these Guidelines are available on the ESC website http://www.escardio.org/guidelines. For the Supplementary Data which include background information and detailed discussion of the data that have provided the basis for the Guidelines see https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy037#supplementary-data Click here to access the corresponding chapter in ESC CardioMed - Section 39 Syncope ... ... Guidelines summarize and evaluate available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in selecting the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines and their recommendations should facilitate decision making of health professionals in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible health professional(s) in consultation with the patient and caregiver as appropriate.