Syncope: red flags for admission

Evidence-based neurology checklist on syncope: red flags for admission: Red flags in the history Family history of sudden death Syncope during exercise Severe injury Red flags on assessment The ROSE rule indicators of high risk syncope

Red flags in the history

  • Family history of sudden death
  • Syncope during exercise
  • Severe injury

Red flags on assessment

The ROSE rule indicators of high risk syncope

References

  1. McKeon A, Vaughan C, Delanty N. Seizure versus syncope. Lancet Neurol 2006; 5:171-180.
  2. Strickberger SA, Benson DW, Biaggioni I, et al. AHA/ACCF Scientific Statement on the evaluation of syncope: from the American Heart Association Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and Stroke, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; and the American College of Cardiology Foundation: in collaboration with the Heart Rhythm Society: endorsed by the American Autonomic Society. Circulation 2006; 113:316-327.
  3. Glancy DL, Mikdadi GM. Syncope in a 67-year-old man. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2005; 18:74-75.
  4. Reed MJ, Newby DE, Coull AJ, Prescott RJ, Jacques KG, Gray AJ. The ROSE (risk stratification of syncope in the emergency department) study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010; 55:713-721.
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