Pre-syncope and syncope at the operating table--diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities
Keim, M.W.; Heck, K.F.; Hust, M.H.
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift für Alle Gebiete der Operativen Medizen 67(3): 288-291
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-4722 PMID: 8681707 Document Number: 456853
Standing in long-lasting operations can be a trigger for neurocardiogenic syncopes for the personal in the operating theatre. We report on a 37-year-old surgeon who suffered since childhood from more than 100 syncopes and presyncopes. That was the reason for him to think of giving up his profession. The head-up tilt-test proved the mechanism of a neurocardiogenic syncope. No further syncope has occurred for 16 months during the therapy with theophyllin.