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Welcome to Syncopedia, a free syncope tutorial and textbook, Syncopedia is targeted at physicians that want to become syncope doctors. Development of Syncopedia has started in March 2014.

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Initial evaluation of patients with Syncope

The Syncope Textbook Learn the basics of syncope Physiology Blood pressure Blood flow Peripheral resistance Epidemiology Diagnostics Therapy Different causes of syncope Cardiac syncope Reflex syncope Vasovagal syncope Situational syncope Carotid sinus syncope Orthostatic hypotension

The Syncope Tutorials See a preview of our content Basic circulatory physiology Measurements Epidemiology of T-LOC Diagnosis Essentials of history taking Symptoms and Signs of Syncope Cardiac syncope Structural cardiac diseases Reflex syncope Carotid sinus syncope Orthostatic hypotension Afferent baroreflex lesion Effects of straining Postural tachycardia syndrome Psychogenic pseudosyncope Epileptic seizures Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures Treatment

Cases and Examples Learn from these interesting cases Interactive Cases Reflex syncope Vasovagal syncope Orthostatic hypotension Effects of straining Treatment Initiators & Editors Initiators FJ de Lange, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands J de Jong, Onze Lieve Vrouwengasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands W Wieling, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Editorial board JG van Dijk, Leiden Academic Medical Centre, Leiden, The Nertherlands N van Dijk, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands J Halliwil, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA J de Jong, Onze Lieve Vrouwengasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands RA Kenny, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland FJ de Lange, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands JJ van Lieshout, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands S Raj, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada RS Sheldon, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada R Sutton, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom RD Thijs, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, Heemstede, The Netherlands W Wieling, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands JWM Lenders, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany JM Stewart, New York Medical College, USA JSY de Jong, Amsterdam Medical Centre, The Netherlands Contributors

Education video to teach patients suffering from reflex syncope physical counterpressure manoeuvers to prevent a faint