GEMC:Chief Complaints / Case-Based Slide sets

Chief Complaint: I Passed Out / Syncope

Book Chapters (May not be open access)

• Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations. 3rd edition. Chapter 12. Syncope by Wishwa Kapoor. ../docss/ch12.pdf Accessed Aug 2013.

Policies & Guidelines

• American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Syncope https://www.acep.org/Clinical---Practice-Management/Clinical-Policy--Critical-Issues-in-the-Evaluation-and-Management-of-Adult-Patients-Presenting-to-the-Emergency-Department-with-Syncope/
• Strickberger SA, Benson DW, Biaggioni I, Callans DJ, Cohen MI, Ellenbogen KA, Epstein AE, Friedman P, Goldberger J, Heidenreich PA, Klein GJ, Knight BP, Morillo CA, Myerburg RJ, Sila CA; American Heart Association Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and Stroke; Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; American College of Cardiology Foundation; Heart Rhythm Society; American Autonomic Society. 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 Jan 17;113(2):316-27 http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16418451

Podcasts

• Bart Besinger Deadly Drops - Syncope That Kills http://wp.me/pR3VZ-2rc
• Stuart Swadron Five Easy Misses in Syncope http://wp.me/pR3VZ-1pR
• Amal Mattu Syncope: A Common Sense Approach to a High Risk Problem http://wp.me/pR3VZ-13J

Chief Complaint: Shortness of Breath / Dyspnea

Videos

• Nightmare Respiratory Emergencies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH84yW6f8Vo (accessed 16 Nov 2013)

Chief Complaint: Back Pain

See Also

GEMC: Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum (Main)

Authors

Joe Lex, Ross Donaldson, Daniel Ostermayer