RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere!
JF Practical Neurology
JO Pract Neurol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 48
OP 50
DO 10.1046/j.1474-7766.2003.00116.x
VO 3
IS 1
A1 John Bamford
YR 2003
UL http://pn.bmj.com/content/3/1/48.abstract
AB Back in 1993 it had been a fairly average afternoon in the neurovascular clinic; a couple of obese, hypertensive smokers with clear-cut transient ischaemic attacks whose seemingly programmed lack of motivation to modify their vascular risk factors would subsequently challenge all the persuasive skills of my Specialist Nurse. Well at least I could guarantee a carotid bruit for the medical students to listen to. Mixed in were the migraines without headache, or at least that is what I called them, and the paroxysmal positional vertigo that had been labelled as ‘vertebrobasilar insufficiency’, a term that in my view should either be used as it was first intended or discarded altogether but certainly not as an exit strategy from general practitioner surgeries or Ear, Nose and Throat clinics! On top of this a colleague’s mother had been put in as an extra after an episode of amnesia and so, almost inevitably