Dizziness
1. Performed with the patient first sitting upright, then lying supine with head and neck extended beyond edge of the couch. Patient's head is rotated to the left (or right) and supported by the examiner while the patient assumes the supine position and keeps his or her eyes focused on the examiner's eyes. Repeated with the other ear facing down. In patients with BPPV, after a short delay rotatory nystagmus is seen, in association with severe vertigo and nausea, which gradually abates.

Pile-Dixon text
Pie-Dixie test
Hall-Dixpipe
Dick-Piepipe test
Dix-Hallpike test

2. A disabling sensation in which the affected individual feels that either he himself or his surroundings are in a state of constant movement. It is most often a spinning sensation but there may be a feeling that the ground is tilting.

Vertiligo
Presyncope
Dizziness
PPNV
Vertigo

3. Peri-oral or finger tingling, and panic or anxiety are __________ features of dizziness

Neurologic
Vestibular
Cardiovascular (presyncopal)
Drug-related
Hyperventilation

4. Herpetic eruption of the external auditory meatus; facial palsy +/- deafness, tinnitus and vertigo

Handsay Rutter syndrome
Rutter Hand syndrome
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Roland Hunt syndrome
Handy Runt syndrome

5. Acute, sustained dysfunction of the peripheral vestibular system with secondary nausea, vomiting, and vertigo.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Obtundusification
Vestibular neuronitis
Vertiligo
Meniere's disease

6. A disease of the inner ear characterized by episodes of deafness, tinnitus, and vertigo. Typically the attacks are preceded by a sensation of fullness in the ear.

Vestibular neuronitis
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Vertiligo
Meniere's disease
Obtundusification

7. Light-headed, faint, related to posture change, less with exertion, and possible palpitations are ___________ features of dizziness.

Vestibular
Hyperventilation
Cardiovascular (presyncopal)
Drug-related
Neurologic

8. A common cause of vertigo characterised by brief episodes of rotatory vertigo precipitated by sudden head movements.Thought to be due to microscopic debris derived from the otoliths of the utricle and displaced into one of the semicircular canals.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Vestibular neuronitis
Obtundusification
Vertiligo
Meniere's disease

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