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Figure 1 A Proposed Syncope Management Model From Emergency Department to Hospital

*The 6-h ED syncope unit evaluation was examined and validated in the SEEDS study (9). The 24-h hospital syncope unit evaluation proposed here is primarily based on 2 factors. Within 24 h, the medical team should decide whether the patient will need to remain in the hospital for further evaluation/therapy or is ready for dismissal and outpatient management. When a hospital stay is <24 h, the patient can be managed under the "observational" status without "being admitted," thereby potentially reducing health care resource utilization. **The Syncope Management Unit was developed in strict adherence to the recommendations of the guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology (8) and validated in the EGSYS-2 studies (15,16). BP = blood pressure; ECG = electrocardiogram; ED = emergency department; ER = emergency room; ESC = European Society of Cardiology.