Posterior stroke: a simple approach
Update: 2019-10-07
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Your patient is an elderly lady who feels dizzy. Her bloods are all normal and she wants to go home, but she's too dizzy to walk unaided. Her positive urine dipstick is urging you to call it a UTI and move on, but you wonder if she could be having a posterior stroke. You faintly remember something about a 'hinting' exam and getting patients to slap their hands together... You wonder if you should get a CT head, and if that would be enough to exclude the diagnosis. If only the guys at The BREACH covered an article reviewing posterior stroke...
Well, you're in luck. Step away from that urine sample! This paper is going to answer all your questions
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