Abstract
Fits and faints in children present problems familiar to all general practitioners and paediatricians. In a recent survey from the National Child Development Study it was reported that no less than 6.7 per cent of a large unselected sample of children had a history of seizures or other episodes of loss of consciousness by the age of 11 years (Ross et al. 1980). This is a rewarding area of paediatric medicine, both diagnostically and therapeutically, and one in which good clinical methods are often of more value than sophisticated investigative techniques.
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Wallace, S. J., in Paediatric Neurology, Ed. F. C. Rose, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1979, p. 346.
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Barnes, N.D., Roberton, N.R.C. (1981). Fits, Faints and Funny Turns. In: Paediatrics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7424-1_8
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