Open Access: Yes
Citation
van de Berg, R., & Kingma, H. (2021). History Taking in Non-Acute Vestibular Symptoms: A 4-Step Approach. Journal of clinical medicine, 10(24), 5726. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10245726
Link
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8703413/pdf/jcm-10-05726.pdf
Description
This article describes how to perform structured history taking in patients with non-acute vestibular symptoms
Keywords
history taking, vestibular symptoms, triggers, timing, titrate, discohat, so stoned, vestibular syndromes, 4-step approach, acute vestibular syndrome, episodic vestibular syndrome, chronic vestibular syndrome, overlap, accompanying symptoms, differential diagnosis, differential diagnoses
Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg
Topics
- Being able to extract vestibular symptoms
- Being able to identify triggers, timing and type of vestibular symptoms
- Allocate vestibular symptoms into 1 of the 3 vestibular syndromes
- Being aware that different vestibular syndromes may co-exist or overlap
- Identify accompanying symptoms (e.g. otological, migraine, neurological, emotional)
- Being able to establish a list of the most likely differential diagnoses