Serious outcomes among emergency department patients with presyncope: A systematic review.
Hadi MirfazaelianIan StiellRasoul MasoomiKhazar GarjaniVenkatesh ThiruganasambandamoorthyPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2024)
The prevalence of short-term serious outcomes varies from 4% to 27% among ED patients with presyncope in our review, with arrhythmia being the most common serious outcome. Our review indicates that presyncope may carry a similar risk to syncope, and hence, the same level of caution should be exercised for ED presyncope management as syncope.