Indications
Contraindications
Equipment
Risks
Pearls and Tips
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• Most episodes of vasovagal or neurally mediated syncope can be elucidated by careful history of the events surrounding clinical episodes.
• Tilt-table testing does not provide additional useful information for most straightforward cases of vasovagal syncope.
• Tilt-table testing is helpful in the following settings:
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• Recurrent syncope of uncertain etiology.
• Syncope without prodromal symptoms.
• Patients with normal electroencephalogram and a diagnosis of a seizure disorder.
• Symptoms occurring while standing.
• Patients with syncope should have an ECG performed to exclude possibility of long QT syndrome.
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