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#Is there an obvious cause and/or is there a high risk for acute cardiac death? | #Is there an obvious cause and/or is there a high risk for acute cardiac death? | ||
For T-LOC the most important diagnostic tool is the medical history. Start | For T-LOC the most important diagnostic tool is the medical history. Start history taking with '''open questions'''. What happened? What did you feel? How did you do afterwards? The following elements must be addressed in any case (bold: risk of acute cardiac death, italic: first epileptic convulsion): | ||
====Circumstances prior to T-LOC==== | ====Circumstances prior to T-LOC==== | ||