The Clinical Takeaway: Acute Vestibular Syndromes – Part 2

In this episode:
 
– Acute vestibular and acute transient vestibular syndromes
– The HINTS + assessment… a powerful tool in teasing out those patients at risk of more serious causes of acute vertigo such as posterior circulation stroke
– Confirming the diagnosis of vestibular neuritis

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 53 mins

Guest: Dr Benjamin Tsang, Neurologist; Beach Brain, Specialist Medical Practice, Sunshine Coast; Public SMO Neurology Post, Sunshine Coast University Hospital

 
Recommended Resources:

 
Listen to Part 1 – A Practical Approach to Vertigo

 
Videos provided by Dr Tsang and hospital staff at Sunshine coast&
 

Head Impulse test
Video shows the head impulse test demonstration.

L) PC BPPV – L) DH UBN and torsional
Video of what left posterior canal BPPV would look like on a left Dix-Hallpike.

Cropped N right HIT +ve left HIT
Video shows an abnormal physical examination finding of an abnormal head impulse test.

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