Managing Cognitive Load to Uncover an Unusual Cause of Syncope: Exercises in Clinical Reasoning

J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Feb;31(2):247-251. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3534-9. Epub 2015 Nov 5.

Christopher Small¹, Andrew M Land¹, Steven A Haist², Carlos A Estrada^{3

4}, Erin D Snyder^{5

6

7}

¹ Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
² National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.
⁴ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
⁵ Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. esnyder@uab.edu.
⁶ Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA. esnyder@uab.edu.
⁷ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. esnyder@uab.edu.

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Keywords: clinical reasoning; cognitive load; hyperviscosity syndrome; syncope.

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