Fun fact: Sadly patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may first "present" in cardiac arrest.
Syncope or feeling faint is a very common presentation to the hospital. Broadly speaking there are cardiac and neurological causes of fainting. We discuss the common causes and why you would suspect one over another.
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