We hear about amazing advances in technology to help diagnose previously undiagnosed conditions, yet this relatively straightforward advance could help explain why the 6-per-thousand people–in Sydney that’s more than 4 people per hour, each hour, every day –  faint.

It’s the arrival and use of a ‘tilt table’ at the Sydney Adventist Hospital’s Blackouts and Faints Clinic.

The Clinic opened last year opened as a one-stop-shop to help diagnose what causes blackouts and faints, previously significantly underdiagnosed.

It’s a condition which if you are aged 75, you are 3 times more likely to have, yet which if diagnosed may be able to be managed or stopped preventing traumatic falls, or if its caused by cardiac issues, even death.

Dr Graham Tanswell; cardiologist, electrophysiologist, and Director of the Blackouts and Faints Clinic at Sydney Adventist Hospital, joins John Stanley.

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