Good-day, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Many thanks for listening,

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you can tweet me at Don Barfield or you can email me at D-Barfield at rvc.acet.uk. So today we're

lucky to speak to Dr. Joe Fenn, a lecturer in neurology and neurosurgery here at the Royal Vet College.

Joe is a wide variety of interest in his specialised

area from conditions such as is hemic myelopathy and acute non-compressive nuclear proposis

exclusion and now he's the lead surgeon of our diabetes remission clinic removing pituitary glands

and acrome magallic cats. Today we're going to talk to Joe about presentation management of acute

vestibular disease. Thanks for coming along and hello Joe.

Hello.

Also I should say hello to Jason Isaacs.

Yes you should.

Okay.

So maybe we could first ask you generally if we can explain like the difference between peripheral and central vestibular disease please.

Yeah, so I guess that vestibular disease in general in dogs and cats

presents with a particular sort of syndrome or clinical signs that represent a disorder of equilibrium

and balance regardless of a central or peripheral cause, we're looking at a situation

where an animal is losing balance, and that's going to be manifested in similar ways. So that could

include head tilt, nystagmus, fall into one side, generalised detacia, with those sorts of features.

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