2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

Win-Kuang Shen¹, Robert S Sheldon, David G Benditt¹, Mitchell I Cohen¹, Daniel E Forman¹, Zachary D Goldberger¹, Blair P Grubb¹, Mohamed H Hamdan¹, Andrew D Krahn¹, Mark S Link¹, Brian Olshansky¹, Satish R Raj¹, Roopinder Kaur Sandhu¹, Dan Sorajja¹, Benjamin C Sun¹, Clyde W Yancy^{1

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¹ Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry may apply; see Appendix 1 for detailed information. ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison. ACC/AHA Representative. HRS Representative. ACEP and SAEM Joint Representative. ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison.

PMID: 28280232
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000498

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2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society

Win-Kuang Shen et al. Circulation. 2017.

. 2017 Aug 1;136(5):e25-e59.

doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000498. Epub 2017 Mar 9.

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¹ Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry may apply; see Appendix 1 for detailed information. ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison. ACC/AHA Representative. HRS Representative. ACEP and SAEM Joint Representative. ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison.

PMID: 28280232
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000498

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Correction to 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Circulation. 2017 Oct 17;136(16):e269-e270. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000538. Circulation. 2017. PMID: 29038214 No abstract available.

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Keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; adult congenital heart disease; athletes; cardiac syncope; dehydration; diagnosis; driving; geriatrics; neurogenic syncope; orthostatic hypotension; pediatrics; prognosis; reflex syncope; risk assessment; syncope; vasovagal syncope.

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Discriminatory Value of Orthostatic Vital Signs in the Emergency Department Evaluation of Syncope.
Bloom AS, Devlin JJ. Bloom AS, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Sep;70(3):438-439. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.05.020. Ann Emerg Med. 2017. PMID: 28844271 No abstract available.

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