TY - JOUR T1 - Diagnosis of acute vertigo in the emergency department JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 538 LP - 539 DO - 10.1136/emj.2010.105874 VL - 28 IS - 6 AU - Nicholas J Cutfield AU - Barry M Seemungal AU - Hugh Millington AU - Adolfo M Bronstein Y1 - 2011/06/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/28/6/538.2.abstract N2 - Acute vertigo accounts for 12% of neurological presentations to emergency departments.1 Over 12 months, the neuro-otologists' diagnoses from 90 referrals seen in our emergency department were benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) 31, vestibular neuritis 14, history of vestibulopathy with no diagnosis (normal assessment) 14, vestibular migraine 12, anxiety/panic disorder 11, stroke 4, presyncope 4. BPPV was the most common diagnosis and this is important because BPPV is easily diagnosed and treated with simple manoeuvres (figure … ER -