Annals of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Risk Stratification of Older Adults Who Present to the Emergency Department With Syncope: The FAINT Score.
Older adults with syncope are commonly treated in the emergency department (ED). We seek to derive a novel risk-stratification tool to predict 30-day serious cardiac outcomes. ⋯ Among older adults with syncope or near syncope of potential cardiac cause, a FAINT score of zero had a reasonably high sensitivity for excluding death and serious cardiac outcomes at 30 days. If externally validated, this tool could improve resource use for this common condition.