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If
you experience a sudden onslaught of vertigo or dizziness that then passes,
chances are you were suffering something called a mini-stroke.
A
mini-stroke itself is relatively harmless, but because they’re almost always
followed up by more mini-strokes and often a final big stroke, this is a
serious issue that needs to be addressed.
A
Canadian research team and an American MD/Professor had an interesting debate
in the January 2016 edition of the Annals
of Neurology.
The
Canadian team thought that too few people who visit the ER with dizziness go on to have
strokes later, while the American professor believed that too many of them did.
This
is obviously important, because if many people who complain of dizziness are suffering a
light stroke and go on to suffer a more severe one, ER physicians will have to
start using MRI brain scans on a lot more people who visit the ER with vertigo and dizziness.
This
can become incredibly expensive, as millions of people visit the ER with dizziness or vertigo every year. In fact,
since MRIs are so expensive, it could completely implode some countries’
medical systems.
The
Canadian researchers examined the information of all patients discharged from
ER departments in Ontario between 2006 and 2011 with a diagnosis of peripheral
vestibular disorder.
Peripheral
vestibular disorder is the name for a variety of inner ear and vestibular nerve
conditions. It is the most common cause of vertigo.
They
checked whether these people suffered a stroke within 30 days after
their discharge from the ER.
Of
the 41,794 vertigo patients, 76 (0.18%)
had a stroke within the first 30 days of their ER visit. In other words, they
probably had a light stroke, not peripheral vestibular disorder.
Those
diagnosed with peripheral vestibular disorder were 9.3 times more likely to
have a stroke in the next 30 days than similar people without vertigo.
But
the Canadian team believed that, 0.18% (less than 2 in a thousand) of incorrect
diagnoses are simply too low to start implementing widespread and expensive MRI
scans on everyone presenting at the ER with dizziness.
In
the same journal, Dr. David E. Newman-Toker from Johns Hopkins University used
statistics previously unearthed by American researchers showing that three to
five percent of people who visit the ER with dizziness have had, or will still
have, a stroke.
Accordingly,
he thinks more should be done to reduce or eliminate these mistaken diagnoses.
He
argued that, with 4.4 million Americans visiting the ER annually with
dizziness, three to five percent of mistaken diagnoses translates to 120,000 to
200,000 missed strokes per year.
Yikes!
In fact, even 0.18% is 7,920 missed strokes per year, which is a lot.
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