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Acute vertigo: quick reference for HINTS and differential diagnosis

…Assess gait and truncal stability and investigate for a central cause. Acute vestibular syndrome is often caused by acute unilateral vestibulopathy, commonly called vestibular neuritis…

Dix–Hallpike test and Epley manoeuvre

…dysarthria, dysphagia, ataxia Posterior circulation stroke Unilateral hearing loss or tinnitus Ménière's disease, vestibular schwannoma, labyrinthitis Continuous vertigo that does not come in attacks…

Foreign body in the ear and nose

…bead, stone, toy Within a day or so Unilateral, foul smelling nasal discharge in a small child is a foreign body until proven otherwise. Contraindications…

Primary Aldosteronism: Screening and Management

…syndrome, comprises disorders in which aldosterone secretion is inappropriately increased, relatively autonomous from angiotensin II and plasma potassium, and resistant to suppression by sodium loading…

Nasogastric tube

…or unilateral nasal obstruction. 2. Measure the depth of insertion by laying the tube from the tip of the nose to the earlobe and from…

Acute exacerbation of COPD: quick reference

Lungmedicin Akutsjukvård Lathundar Key messages Two things set the COPD exacerbation apart from many other causes of acute dyspnoea: oxygen must be titrated cautiously and…

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