Prognosis of patients with syncope seen in the emergency room department: an evaluation of four different risk scores recommended by the European Society of Cardiology guidelines

Aim To apply, analyze, and evaluate the four syncope risk scores recommended by the 2009 European guidelines and the different parameters that they use to predict death, syncope recurrence, and hospital readmission in the population seen in the emergency room department (ERD) for syncope. Methods and results A total of 323 patients aged older than 14 years [mean age 59 (32–75) years] and seen in ERD for syncope over a 2-month period were...