To describe the demographic characteristics, symptom profiles, comorbidities, investigation patterns, and treatments of patients presenting with vertigo at emergency departments in Mersin, Türkiye, and to identify predictors of advanced imaging (CT and/or MRI).
No actionable change for audiology practice; this is a descriptive emergency medicine dataset that may inform referral pathway awareness but does not alter vestibular assessment protocols.
Understanding the demographic and etiological profile of emergency vertigo presentations can help audiologists and ENTs anticipate referral patterns and tailor vestibular services to local epidemiology.
- 01Describes demographics, causes, and clinical patterns of vertigo in Turkish emergency departments.
- 02Study site is Mersin, Türkiye, providing region-specific epidemiological data.
- 03Published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.
- 04Findings may reflect referral load relevant to audiology and neurology clinics.
- 05Cross-sectional descriptive design limits causal inference.
Vertigo presentations to emergency departments in Mersin have identifiable demographic and etiological patterns.
studysupported- PMID
- 42084264
- DOI
- 10.1097/SCS.0000000000012852.
- Journal
- Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Patients presenting with vertigo to emergency departments in Mersin, Türkiye
- Intervention
- Descriptive epidemiological assessment of vertigo presentations
Primary outcomes
Demographic characteristics of vertigo patients; Etiological distribution of vertigo cases; Clinical presentation patterns