Current management of syncope: Key practical messages from the latest guidelines

Dr Giorgio Costantino is an associate professor and chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan (Italy).

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Future of postgraduate education in internal medicine A lecture by Dr Runólfur Pálsson, from Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2018.
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Diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic accuracy A lecture by Dr Philip A. Masters, from American College of Physicians, USA, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2018.
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Current management of syncope: Key practical messages from the latest guidelines

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