Special populations · Case-based discussion
Case-based discussion
The whole atlas, applied. Work 10 patients from the door to a diagnosis and a multidisciplinary plan — and see how a single framework and a coordinated team turn a confusing symptom into a manageable one.
Why cases
Vertigo is easier to learn through stories than through lists. Each case here is a short patient scenario: you read what happened, decide what you think is going on, and then see the answer explained — along with which specialists need to be involved.
These cases turn the atlas’s separate chapters into a single reasoning skill. Each applies a structured framework to a real-sounding presentation, asks a single-best-answer question, and then explains every option — because knowing why the wrong answers are wrong is where the learning is.
How to use this chapter
- Approach & the team — the TiTrATE framework for sorting any dizzy patient, and the multidisciplinary team that manages them.
- Interactive cases — 10 worked vignettes with single-best-answer questions, full rationales, multidisciplinary plans and chapter links.
- Pattern-recognition pearls — the cross-cutting rules that recur across the cases.
Every case carries a multidisciplinary plan and a link to the chapter that covers the condition in depth — so a case can be a quick self-test or a doorway into the detail.
Key points
- Cases turn the atlas’s chapters into a single clinical-reasoning skill.
- Each applies the TiTrATE framework and ends with a multidisciplinary plan.
- Single-best-answer questions explain every option, not just the right one.
- The cases span acute, episodic, positional, chronic, paediatric and older-adult vertigo.