PA Boards 71: Vertigo Made Simple

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Physician, Pance, Health & Fitness, Review, Family, Education, Medicine, Assistant, Board, Podcast

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🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On today's episode we answer a listeners question regarding vertigo. He wants to know when an MRI is indicated in the evaluation of vertigo. So, we decipher peripherl vs central causes and we discuss when an MRI is indicated.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to episode 71 of the Physician
0:03.3	assistant boards.com podcast today's episode is going to be answering a
0:07.0	listener's question regarding vertigo and how to appropriately work somebody up
0:11.3	that presents with vertigo.
0:13.0	Before we get into the question, before we get into the answer,
0:16.0	I want to make a quick announcement,
0:18.0	and I want to let everybody know that I took the GI section
0:21.0	from the audio review course that I put together and I uploaded it on the website for free.
0:25.8	So you can go ahead and download the entire Gastro and Terology review.
0:29.2	It's 53 minutes of focus GI review. You can download it for for free all you have to do is go
0:34.8	to physician assistant boards.com forward slash audio click the free download
0:39.9	button and answer the promo code free. You'll have instant access to the entire
0:44.8	GI section. It's 53 minutes. This is going to help you if you have exams, your
0:49.4	end of rotation exams, and it's definitely going to help for the pants and pannery.
0:53.0	So go ahead and go to the website physician assistant boards.com forward slash audio
0:57.0	and you can download the entire review for free.
1:00.0	This is my gift to you guys.
1:01.0	Hopefully it helps you out.
1:02.0	Now let's get right into today's
1:04.4	question. So today's question is from Brad. He asks, when is an MRI indicated
1:10.0	during the evaluation of a patient suffering from vertigo.
1:14.0	I've had a few cases of patients who come in with dizziness in the last couple of weeks,
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