Ejemplos de uso de syncope
1. Barring a couple of mysterious blackouts as a child – known as syncope and probably the result of a drop in blood pressure – he had never fainted before.
2. The President was in a state of syncope, totally insensible and breathing slowly; the blood oozed from the wound at the back of the head.
3. It is thought that 30 per cent of syncope attacks are treated as epilepsy. ‘I was lucky that I was in the U.S. where a speedy diagnosis of the underlying cause was made.
4. Walking with poles makes you swing your arms up to your shoulders, which is good for the heart and circulation.‘ Now, as well as his other charitable work, Sir Roger is a patron of STARS, which offers information and support on syncope – the mysterious blackouts he suffered – and reflex anoxic seizures, the latter mostly experienced by children, whose heart and lungs stop for up to 30 seconds. ‘I was horrified to discover how often both conditions are misdiagnosed,‘ he says.