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S2D: The Symptom to Diagnosis Podcast

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The Central Causes of Vertigo Are More Common Than You Think

The first is to ask the patient to actually describe the sensation in as much detail as they can. If the trigger is typically turning over, that's much more suggestive over a vertiginous situation. The second point is patients who have vertigo, it's really critical to identify the small subgroup of people of something that's life threatening in a brain stem That's causing it from the overwhelming majority who have some inner ear process that's benign.

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