A symptom, not a disease process. Causes can be peripheral or central, benign, or life-threatening.
May be described as a sensation of movement (“room spinning”) when no movement is a...
Do not rely on symptom quality—often unreliable. Focus on timing and triggers (2).
TiTrATE is a clinically useful evaluation tool: Timing, Triggers, And a Targeted Evalua...
If medication is likely cause: stop medication and reassess (2)
BPPV: Epley maneuver and modified Epley maneuver (2)[A] (Epley maneuver–YouTube) ...
Ménière Disease; Motion Sickness; Vertigo, Benign Paroxysmal Positional (BPPV)
Algorithm: Dizziness
R42 Dizziness and giddiness
H81.10 Benign paroxysmal vertigo, unspecified ear
H81.49 Vertigo of central origin, unspecified ear
H81.399 Other peripheral vertigo, unspecified ear
H81.311 Aural v...
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Acute, spontaneous, continuous vertigo with a normal horizontal head impulse, direction-changing nystagmus, and skew deviation (HINTS positive) is highly sensit...
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