Abstract：
:The therapy of patients with syncope is oriented to the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. Patients with reflex syncope require careful education regarding recognition of warning signs and the avoidance of trigger factors. Treatment with beta blockers is nowadays obsolete. Even other drugs have failed to show any benefit. Pacemaker therapy should only be considered if syncope attacks are frequent and if there is a correlation between symptoms and the electrocardiogram (ECG). Because autonomic failure in patients with orthostatic hypotension is often drug-induced, reduction of the dosage or the complete elimination is the treatment of choice in these patients. A higher than normal salt and fluid intake as well as general measures to avoid delayed venous backflow, e.g. elastic stockings, may also be helpful. A change in blood pressure medication can be decisive for therapy success, especially in elderly patients with arterial hypertension. Pacemaker and defibrillator therapy is the treatment of choice in patients with bradycardia and tachycardia arrhythmias, respectively. Although these measures are simple but effective, in individual cases it is still difficult to find clinical proof that arrhythmic disorders are the causal factors for the syncope. However, also in these patients cardiac pacing should be based on a symptom ECG correlation. The recently conducted market release of the injectable miniaturized ECG recorder will alleviate the diagnostic process. The limits of this approach, however, become obvious when there is the suspicion of a life-threatening rhythm disorder, because the only difference between syncope and sudden cardiac death is that in one case the patient wakes up again.
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