Syncope in Children

Abstract

Sinisa Franjic

Syncope is defined as a sudden and short-term loss of consciousness and postural tone with rapid sudden and complete recovery lasting from a few seconds to 2 minutes. 30-50% of children have at least one attack of unconsciousness and one in 100 children who come for an examination to the Emergency Pediatric Clinic come under the diagnosis of syncope. It can be preceded by presyncope - a feeling of weakness, paleness, insecurity, tinnitus, dizziness, nausea, “cold sweat”, visual disturbances. The patient usually describes that he “darkened before his eyes”, “felt weakness in the muscles”, lost consciousness, “covered in cold sweat”, and eyewitnesses state that he was breathing superficially with a weakly palpable pulse.

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