Disease modifying treatment available:
Time critical diagnosis and management:
Lateralising:
When considering transient loss of consciousness (TLOC), it is the 'consciousness' component that sometimes causes difficulty. For details on a non-resolved loss of consciousness see 'Coma'. Consciousness has two components - wakefulness and awareness.
This needs to be discriminated from situations in which there is loss of tone or a fall.
| Disorder | Clinical features | Associated features | Investigations | Disease modifying treatment available | Time critical |
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| Generalized seizure | |||||
| Hypoglycemia | |||||
| Intracranial hypertension | |||||
| Cardiogenic syncope |
Brugada syndrome |
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| Vasovagal syncope | |||||
| Focal seizure with impaired awareness | |||||
| Functional neurological disorder | |||||
| Nesidioblastosis |
Hypoglycemia |
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| Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome | |||||
| Sleep disorder |
| Laboratory Investigation | Result |
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