SYNCOPE

This study is testing if sending fainting patients home from the emergency room with a 15-day heart monitor can find dangerous heart rhythms better than standard care. It will involve 580 adults across Canada who are at medium or high risk for heart problems. The goal is to see i…

This study is observing how well a small, implanted heart monitor works in everyday medical care. It will track 1,400 patients who receive the monitor to see how quickly it can detect rare, irregular heartbeats. The goal is to gather real-world information on the device's perform…

This study aims to find out whether patients who come to the cardiac emergency room with fainting spells (syncope) and are considered low-to-medium risk should be sent home immediately or observed in the hospital for 24 hours with heart monitoring. Researchers will compare these …

This study aims to understand if people with epilepsy who are at high risk of sudden death might have an underlying genetic heart condition. Researchers are recruiting 600 adults with epilepsy or their family members to provide DNA samples for genetic testing. The goal is to iden…

This study aims to find out if warnings about certain medications causing serious heart problems are accurate or causing unnecessary alarm. Researchers will analyze anonymous hospital records from nearly one million adults in Ontario to see if people taking these drugs actually e…