Acute Medicine | Cardiovascular | Acute illnesses which can present with syncope



Acute Illnesses Which Can Present With Syncope
Session Overview
Description
This session covers acute illnesses which can present with syncope.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Recall the most common and some rarer acute illnesses which can cause syncope
Syncope is a transient symptom, characterised by a sudden loss of consciousness (and postural tone), with subsequent spontaneous and relatively prompt recovery.
Syncope is always caused by transient global cerebral hypoperfusion.
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