Symptoms Flashcards
Cause of vertigo
Mismatch between eye sensory input and ears vestibular input
Causes of peripheral (vestibular) vertigo (6)
- benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Ménière’s disease
- vestibular neuritis
- labyrinthitis
- acoustic neuroma
- trauma
Causes of central (brainstem/cerebellar) vertigo
- stroke
- MS
Peripheral vertigo Mx
Prochloperazine + antihistamines
Where is Little’s area and why is it most often affected by epistaxis
- frontal nasal cavity
- contains lots of blood vessels
Nasal packing in 10-15 is
Rhino’s
Nasal cautery in 10-15
Silver nitrate sticks
What is naseptin made of and when is it given
- chlorehixidine + neomycin
- prevents crusting/infection/inflammation
Noise in tinnitus is produced by
Cochlea
1ry tinnitus
No obv cause
Causes of 2ry tinnitus
- ear infection
- Ménière’s disease
- acoustic neuroma
- MS
- trauma
Drugs that can cause 2ry tinnitus
- gentamicin
- loop diuretics
Definition & examples of objective tinnitus
- observed with stethoscope
- aortic/carotid artery stenosis