Foreword -- Preface -- Tloc/Collapse Pathophysiologic And Epidemiologic Features -- Syncope: Definition and Classification- Contrasting American and European Guideline definitions -- Physiology of Maintaining Healthy Consciousness: Role of autonomic nervous system -- Prognosis of TLOC/Collapse Across the Diagnostic Spectrum -- The Burden of TLOC/Collapse: Economic Impact -- Basic Clinical Features -- Determining the Cause of TLOC/Collapse: The Initial Evaluation -- Seizures vs Syncope: Distinguishing Features for the Clinic -- The Reflex Syncopes: The Common and Less Common Variants -- Orthostatic Hypotension Variants, POTs, and Less well Defined Autonomic Dysfunction -- Bradycardias and Tachycardias: Acquired and Inheritable -- Psychogenic Pseudosyncope and Approaches to Treatment -- Basic Diagnostic Strategies -- TLOC/Collapse Risk Assessment: Who Needs to be Hospitalized and Who can be evaluated as Outpatient -- Ambulatory ECG Monitoring in TLOC/Collapse: Current status and Utility in USA and Europe -- Carotid sinus syndrome: Pathophysiology and diagnosis -- Electrophysiological Testing: Appropriate Indications in TLOC/Collapse -- Chp 15 The Syncope Evaluation Unit: Essential Features, Current Status -- Selected Testing: When And How -- The Autonomic Testing Laboratory for studying Syncope/Collapse: Studies and Their Interpretation -- Utility of Video-EEG for Diagnosing and Understanding TLOC/Collapse -- Role of Head and Cardiac Imaging, and Cardiac Stress Testing for Syncope/Collapse -- Selected Treatment Concerns -- Update on Cardiac Pacing in Reflex Syncope -- Indications for pacing in patients with unexplained syncope and bifascicular block -- ICD indications in patients with unexplained syncope -- Drugs in Vasovagal Syncope: Current Status -- Ictal Asystole, Relation to VVS and Role of Cardiac Pacing -- Driving and Flying: US and European Recommendations. .