METHOD OF DETERMINING REASON OF SYNCOPES OF DIFFERENT ORIGIN Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to field of medicine, namely cardiology. Clinical interrogation and electric cardiogram registration are carried out. During clinical interrogation presence of the following signs is estimated: provocation of syncopes by medical manipulations, pallor of integuments during syncope, provocation of attacks by prolonged orthostasis, hyperhydrosis after syncope, "blackout" before loss of consciousness, possibility of preventing loss of consciousness by changing body position from vertical to horizontal, rapid heartbeat before syncope, provocation of syncope by fast change of body position from horizontal to vertical, provocation of syncope by physical exercise, long disorientation after loss of consciousness attack and its amnesia. On the basis of obtained values vasovagal cause of syncope, epilepsy or orthostatic hypotension is determined.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to determine reasons of syncopes of different origin.

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