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Are you sure about that? In the medical field, unresponsive simply means the person doesn't respond when you talk to them or gently shake them. They may have fainted, be under influence of something, be knocked out, or even dying. That could easily apply so someone suffering some kind of vasovagal or neurocadiogenic syncope.
Not usually. Someone has to be unconscious to be called unresponsive. Syncopal episodes, in and of themselves, without loss of consciousness would not be categorized as unresponsive, even if the individual doesn't respond when spoken to.