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When a patient presents to an emergency department or urgent care centre, they should be given the best available information.

This updated fact sheet helps ensure clinicians and patients have access to easy-to-read information about different emergency conditions.

Give this fact sheet to your patients when discharging them from an emergency department or urgent care centre.

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    Please note that this guidance is currently undergoing review by Safer Care Victoria to ensure  the content is up to date. In the meantime, we recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence where possible.

    Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on vertigo

    This fact sheet has the #withconsumers tick from the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

    Vertigo is a type of dizziness. It can begin seconds after a certain head movement or change in position and lasts less than a minute if the head is kept still. Movement of the head will often make the dizziness worse.

    You may feel as if you are spinning or not well balanced. You may feel like you are going to fall over.

    While there are some serious causes of vertigo, in most cases it is not a serious condition and usually gets better with time.

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    Clinical Guidance Team
    Safer Care Victoria

    Version history

    First published: July 2019
    Due for review: July 2022

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