The second episode in the neuro-otology and vertigo series takes a step back to review the clinical approach to the patient presenting with the notoriously misinterpreted symptom of ‘dizziness’, before reviewing the best way to classify common causes of vertigo into either acute persistent vertigo vs. episodic vertigo (which can in turn be triggered vs. non-triggered). It then discusses the diagnosis and management of vestibular neuritis, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV, especially the posterior and geotropic/ageotropic horizontal canal variants), Meniere’s disease and migraine with vestibular features, before turning to a discussion of less commonly encountered causes of vertigo so as to provide an exhaustive list of the potential causes of vertigo, so that when you encounter them in clinical practice you are not then hearing about them for the first time. As always, the episode is packed to the rafters with useful tips, tricks and personal and practical insights so as to contextualise the content, in an attempt to aid structured understanding and memorisation. This episode is appropriate for medical students, junior doctors, physician and neurology trainees, neurologists, cardiologists/ general practitioners (family doctors)/emergency and intensive care physicians and their respective trainees, and any other health professional assessing patients presenting with dizziness (who may ultimately have a neurologic, cardiac or another cause for this presenting symptom).

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