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Area of Science:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Cardiology
  • Clinical Risk Stratification

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  • Syncope is a frequent emergency department (ED) presentation often leading to low-yield hospitalizations.
  • The Canadian Syncope Risk Score (CSRS) is a validated tool for assessing 30-day serious adverse event risk in syncope patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate syncope admissions using the CSRS.
  • To identify potentially unnecessary hospitalizations for syncope patients.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective, cross-sectional study of 200 adult syncope admissions across 11 EDs.
  • Manual chart review to calculate CSRS and identify low-risk patients (CSRS < 1).
  • Comparison of demographic characteristics between low-risk and higher-risk CSRS groups.

Main Results:

  • 39% of analyzed syncope hospitalizations were classified as low-risk by CSRS.
  • Low-risk patients were younger and less likely to have heart disease.
  • Low-risk patients were more likely to have a history of substance use disorder.

Conclusions:

  • A significant proportion (39%) of hospitalized syncope patients had a low-risk CSRS.
  • Implementing CSRS could enable safe discharge for these low-risk individuals, reducing hospitalizations.
  • Wider adoption of the CSRS may decrease unnecessary hospitalizations for syncope.