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Vertigo Made Simpler- a practical course to stop you spinning in circles

Course/Event Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Course/Event Duration: 1 Day

Course/Event Description

Vertigo Made Simpler- a practical course to stop you spinning in circles

 

Course/Event Date: 

6 February 2024

 

Course/Event Duration: 

1 day

 

Course/Event Description:

This popular, practical course is designed for physicians, trainees and associated health care professionals seeing the dizzy patient in Acute Admissions Unit, Emergency Department, Syncope units, Falls services, TIA clinics and Outpatients.  Using a varied programme of lectures, practical demonstrations and interactive small group workshops, delegates will gain skills in assessment and management of the most common causes of dizziness and vertigo (including BPPV and repositioning manoeuvres)

Delegates will understand the physiology and clinical signs, for example Head Impulse Test, Nystagmus in patients presenting with acute vestibular syndrome and triggered vertigo. Which are common emergency presentations to medicine and stroke services.

 

Course/Event Venue:

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232-242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5RJ

 

This course is targeted at the following specialty Groupings:

  • Acute Physicians
  • Stroke Physicians
  • Trainee Physicians 
  • Medicine for the Older Person specialists
  • Falls and Syncope Physicians
  • AHP’s including physiotherapists and specialist nurses 

 

More Details:

Vertigo Made Simpler

Course/Event Venue: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232-242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5RJ

This course is targeted at the following specialty Groupings:

  • Medicine

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