ACUTE DIZZINESS IN THE ELDERLY

Abstract

Establishing a diagnosis in a patient with the only or leading complaint of acute dizziness is a diagnostic challenge for the doctor during the initial examination. The differential range includes both benign pathology and life-threatening conditions. The doctor is faced with the task of determining the severity of the patient’s condition, determining indications for hospitalization in a hospital, choosing emergency or routine diagnostic methods, and in case of suspected ischemic stroke, deciding on systemic thrombolytic therapy and/or thromboextraction.