Management of the dizzy patient at King Fahd Hospital of the University : an internal audit
المؤلفون المشاركون
Ashur, Abd al-Aziz
Barakah, Muhammad al-Fatih
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 15، العدد 2 (31 أغسطس/آب 1993)، ص ص. 62-65، 4ص.
الناشر
تاريخ النشر
1993-08-31
دولة النشر
البحرين
عدد الصفحات
4
التخصصات الرئيسية
الموضوعات
الملخص EN
The quality of service provided to the dizzy patient who attend the ENT clinic at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, is reviewed and the medical records critically analysed.
Out of a clinic population ofl6,000 patients (ENTclinic^tndancefor two years, 1988-1989), 110 complained of dizziness (0.7 %).
This Internal Audit suggests that the best way to deal with patients complaining of dizziness is to establish a n™itidisc؛pl؛nary clinic with well structured proce-durai protocol.
Dzziness is a common complaint among patients attending the Ear, Nose and throat (ENT) clinics.
At times, the syndrome of vertigo and dizziness may even be life threatening.
The symptoms affect a disturbance of orien-tation of the body in space; the resultant feeling is of subjective nature, and is usually controlled by a compli-cated stato-kinetic and propioceptive system‘.
While the problem may lie in any single component of the systems to produce clinical symptoms of dizziness, a true vertigo is an exclusive manifestation of disturbed stato-kinetic sysem2.
Because the controlling system is complex, it is not surprising that dizziness as a symptom may be very con-fusing.
However, once the function of this system is understood, it is possible to classify dizziness according to recognisable aetiological entities, that is otological, neurosurgical, medical and others3.
To accomplish localisation, a certain scheme of guidelines needs to be followed.
This appears to be the most practical pathway towards rational investigative and therapeutic regimen.
In an ideal situation a multi-disciplinary (ENT, Neurosurgery and Medical) clinic for the dizzy patient with a well structured procedural and investigative proto-col should be available and functioning Before taking such a decision we thought that it would be advisable first to review the charts of our dizzy patients in the previous 2 years, having in mind the following objectives: 1.
To know roughly the number of dizzy patients attending the ENT - Clinic.
2.
To have some insight of quality of service pro-vided to the patient (history, clinical examina-tion, investigations, treatment and follow up).
3.
To analyse all patient’s data with critical apprai-sal of the quality of services (internal audit).
And accordingly draw conclusions to improve the quality of services to the dizzy patient.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Ashur, Abd al-Aziz& Barakah, Muhammad al-Fatih. 1993. Management of the dizzy patient at King Fahd Hospital of the University : an internal audit. Bahrain Medical Bulletin،Vol. 15, no. 2, pp.62-65.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-605603
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Ashur, Abd al-Aziz& Barakah, Muhammad al-Fatih. Management of the dizzy patient at King Fahd Hospital of the University : an internal audit. Bahrain Medical Bulletin Vol. 15, no. 2 (Aug. 1993), pp.62-65.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-605603
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Ashur, Abd al-Aziz& Barakah, Muhammad al-Fatih. Management of the dizzy patient at King Fahd Hospital of the University : an internal audit. Bahrain Medical Bulletin. 1993. Vol. 15, no. 2, pp.62-65.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-605603
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references : p. 65
رقم السجل
BIM-605603
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