[image: a screenshot from the NHS webpage on fainting, transcribed below:]
If you're with someone who has fainted, try to keep calm.
If you can, lay them on their back and raise their legs.
Usually, the person who has fainted will wake up within 20 seconds.
Immediate action required: Call 999 if:
cannot be woken up after 1 minute
have severely hurt themselves from a fall
are shaking or jerking because of a seizure or fit
Find out more about fainting (syncope), when you pass out for a short time.
Sometimes one is out long enough one doesn't wake up where one was when one fainted. But that is, possibly by definition, being out long enough to be worrisome.
Source: personal experience. On the one occasion, I was a dumbass who didn't have anything to drink that morning, and it wasn't that hot out, so the first I noticed I was dehydrated was when everything turned pretty pink and orange colors accompanied by sudden nausea. Dad had the map of the tourist attraction, so I asked him where the bathroom was, and that's why he was paying attention when I keeled over in the middle of the street. I woke up under the nearest shade tree and spent most of the rest of the day in the planetarium and then the gift shop, because my siblings were not dumbasses who didn't hydrate properly, and those were the only places in Mystic Seaport with air conditioning.
On the other occasion, I was the only person on that floor of the house at the time, so I woke up exactly when I fell with no idea how long I'd been out. So I hollered for my brother to drive me to urgent care, and I told the doctor my best guess for how long it lasted, "a few minutes", which was how long Mom had said I was unconscious at Mystic Seaport, and the doctor gave me a funny look and said that's pretty significant.
(Reading that screenshot, now I know why.)
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