Syncope (what would you do): Differential, Workup, and Management
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'd like to introduce Eric Gordon PA-C. He's the newest member of the Medgeeks team and is a physician assistant practicing emergency medicine in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in 2016.
Eric developed a passion for teaching while working as a zipline and ecotour guide in Austin, Texas. He has also taught standardized test prep classes to high school students and currently enjoys training PA and NP emergency medicine residents.
On this episode, he'll be breaking down syncope from presentation, the differentials, things to look out for, the workup, and management. We'll finish this all off with a nice case study to see how everything ties together!
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| 0:00.0 | You're at your clinic, you're sitting at your computer typing, it's been a busy day as usual, |
| 0:06.0 | you're trying to get caught up on charting between patients. |
| 0:09.0 | Suddenly you hear some commotion coming from down the hall. It's coming from one of your |
| 0:14.8 | exam rooms and you kind of peek your head around the corner. You see one of your |
| 0:18.4 | nurses rushing into the room. You are shortly behind her. You enter the room and you find that your next patient |
| 0:26.0 | is lying on the floor. She's a 56-year-old woman. She's here for her yearly exam. |
| 0:31.0 | It's obvious that she has just fallen. The nurse and the patient's daughter are trying to help her up. |
| 0:36.0 | You notice that there's some blood on the floor coming from a cut on the patient's forehead over her left eye. |
| 0:42.0 | You ask her what happened. Patient is seated into a chair and her |
| 0:45.8 | daughter looks at you and says, I don't know. She just passed out. The nurse is applying |
| 0:51.1 | some pressure to the cut over the patient's eye and looks at you for further direction |
| 0:56.7 | So what do you do? What's up everybody? You are listening to the med geeks podcast. Thank you so much for joining. On this |
| 1:16.1 | episode we're going to be talking about syncopee. But before we begin I am new to |
| 1:21.6 | the med geeks team so I wanted to take a moment and introduce myself. |
| 1:25.9 | My name is Eric Gordon. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm a physician assistant. |
| 1:29.3 | I live in North Texas, and I have been practicing emergency medicine for the past few years. |
| 1:35.0 | I have been a huge fan of this med geeks podcast and an avid listener of the podcast as well, |
| 1:41.0 | dating back to my days in PA school even so I feel very honored I feel very |
| 1:45.5 | thankful to be joining Andrew in the entire med geeks team I am very excited to continue the |
| 1:52.2 | tradition of making fantastic |
| 1:53.9 | podcasts that I hope that everyone listening |
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