Tag: Vertigo
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Central vs. Peripheral Vertigo Simplified
The first and most important step in evaluating a patient with vertigo is to attempt to distinguish vertigo of central origin from vertigo of peripheral origin because the management of central vertigo (brain imaging, hospital admission) is very different from the management of peripheral vertigo (symptomatic treatment, outpatient referral). Differences Between Central and Peripheral Vertigo Peripheral Vertigo…
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What do you mean by “dizzy”?
By Mark Yoffe MD I can’t be 100% sure. But if anyone knows, it’s probably Martin A. Samuels MD, who is an expert on the subject and whose excellent publication, Stop the Spinning: A Simple Approach to Vertigo and Dizziness (2009) is available online free. Basically, there are four kinds of dizzy (my interpretation): Syncope or near-syncope…