Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Patients Admitted With Syncope; Diagnosis and Follow up After These Patients

Observational Study Following After Patients Admitted With Syncope

Status

Suspended

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01201993

Enrollment

Registered

2010-09-15

Start date

2010-08-31

Completion date

2011-06-30

Last updated

2011-06-21

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Conditions

Diagnosis, Recurrence

Keywords

syncope, evaluation, recurrence, morbidity

Brief summary

The investigators hypothesis is that a significant number of patients may remain without specific cause and have recurrent syncope with its associated physical and mental morbidity.

Detailed description

1. Patients with diagnosis of syncope who were admitted to the medical ward will be interviewed and their charts reviewed to rule in or out the diagnosis of syncope. 2. Assess physical and mental injury as a result of syncope. 3. The lab workup will be documented including; 1. \- Routine blood tests. * troponin level. 2. \- ECG. * Echocardiogram * Brain CT. * EEG. * U/S doppler of carotids. * Tilt tests. 4. At the time of diagnosis the final diagnosis will be documented including recommendations for patients to prevent syncope after discharge. 5. Follow up after patients by phone verifying recurrence of syncope and resulting physical and or mental injury if any.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* patients with diagnosis of syncope on admission to the medical ward.

Exclusion criteria

* patients with loss of consciousness due to other than low perfusion of the brain * patients that can't sign a consent form * patients that we can't get details about the episode of the syncope

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
diagnosis	1 year	Final diagnosis as a cause of syncope

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
recurrence	6 months	how many patients had recurrence of syncope and average number of syncope in these patients during the period of follow up of each patient.
physical injury	6 months	During this period of follow up of each patient, was there a physical injury, graded either none, mild, moderate or severe (bedridden)
Mental effect	6 months	fear of recurrent syncope affecting his mobility and graded from mild to severe where severe indicates fear of moving even one step without support.

Countries

Israel

Outcome results