TY - CHAP
T1 - Who Should be Evaluated and Treated in Hospital, and Who Can be Managed as an Outpatient?
AU - Benditt, David G.
PY - 2009/5/5
Y1 - 2009/5/5
KW - Decision to hospitalize a patient with syncope for diagnostic evaluation - depending on short-term mortality risk
KW - High-grade AV block, preexcitation syndromes, arrhythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy (ARVD), long QT syndrome (LQTS), Brugada syndrome, short QT syndrome - ECG abnormalities
KW - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
KW - Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
KW - Life-threatening cardiac syncope
KW - Risk stratification - determines if hospitalization is prudent
KW - Secondary issues of importance
KW - Short-term morbidity risk
KW - Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444312812.ch9
DO - 10.1002/9781444312812.ch9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84890999724
SN - 1405140305
SN - 9781405140300
SP - 69
EP - 74
BT - The Evaluation and Treatment of Syncope
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -