Syncope

Syncope (from the Greek syncopen - short breathing, fainting, syncope, in English syncope) is a disturbance of consciousness and postural tone lasting from several seconds to several minutes, often with a decrease or absence of vascular tone due to dysregulation of the cardiovascular system [1 ]. In practice, it is often called a short-term loss of consciousness, but in the strict sense of the word this is not entirely true. In the absence of syncope, loss of consciousness is classified as