Stroke Chameleons, The Dizzy Patient and more
Jul 23, 2024
Patients presenting with dizziness comprise about 4% of all emergency department presentations. Our role is to exclude central causes. To be able to do this we an approach that allows us to differentiate central from peripheral causes of dizziness. The diagnosis is far from straightforward and emergency physicians can miss up to one third of strokes in patients presenting with dizziness (1).
The most common causes (up to 43%) of vertigo are benign peripheral disorders. Central causes are usually posterior circulation strokes, comprising 20% of all ischaemic strokes....
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