The profiles of dizzy patients in emergency department, hospital universiti sains malaysia (husm): a retrospective stud

摘要

Dizziness is a general term that is used to describe spinning sensation, light-headedness,udoff-balance and postural instability. Dizziness is common complaint during healthcareudvisit in emergency department and outpatients clinic. Many patients are affected byuddizziness as it reduces the quality of life by having an impact in their well being andudwork productivity. There are four types of dizziness which are vertigo, presyncope,uddisequilibrium and others. This retrospective study was carried out to study the profilesudof dizziness patients in emergency department, HUSM for 3 months (June –Augustud2016) duration. The findings were obtained by reviewing the medical records of dizzyudpatients who came to emergency department HUSM, which will eventually be used as audpreliminary data that would establish a better awareness and management in handlinguddizzy patients. We managed to acquire 106 patients that comprises of female gender,udthat was dominating the number of dizzy patients by 60 (57%) cases, compared to maleudwith 46 (43%) cases.The subjects are from two races, which are Malay(96%) andudChinese (4%). The age group of 50 until 60 years old had the highest number ofuddizziness cases with the percentage of 35%. Vertigo has the highest percentage(63%),udfollowed by presyncope(30%), disequilibrium(6%) and lastly, others(5%). The resultudalso showed that both recent Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI) and positionaludrelated was the most factor that aggravate dizziness. Majority of the dizzy patients didudnot experience falls by 74% from the overall subjects. In summary, this study is paralleludwith other research and a bigger sample size in the future would be better result.ud