What does an abnormal head impulse test look like?

Learn when to perform and how to interpret the head impulse test, the most valuable part of the HINTS exam.

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  • @alwaleedsaud6114
    @alwaleedsaud61142 жыл бұрын

    Clear, informative, and comprehensive explanation. You won a neuro follower. Thanks

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the kind words! If you haven't already watch my video with detailed tips on how to perform the Head Impulse Test. kzread.info/dash/bejne/np-eucx_g7msd7A.html

  • @alwaleedsaud6114

    @alwaleedsaud6114

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PeterJohns already watched🙏

  • @kieranmp4143
    @kieranmp41434 жыл бұрын

    Probably the best video on this I have seen so far. Excellent work

  • @leahmaschke257
    @leahmaschke257 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. I am an outpost RN in the Yukon. This has really helped my assessment skills. I am continually searching for videos with excellent teaching to improve my assessment skills. You're it!

  • @ranjitrajandr
    @ranjitrajandr2 жыл бұрын

    This was such a clear description. Excellent! You are a wonderful teacher!👏👏

  • @travisvlasaty8716
    @travisvlasaty87162 жыл бұрын

    Best video and information with real patient exam for HINTS exam! Thanks!

  • @drjohnvinodkumar
    @drjohnvinodkumar9 күн бұрын

    Brilliant, really useful video Doctor , thank you

  • @jxc-gz5yv
    @jxc-gz5yv3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, so much for these videos! I can see your passion for teaching and I know many would agree with me that we are extremely grateful!

  • @jjero1
    @jjero15 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. The multiple examples are especially useful.

  • @Jesssunlim33
    @Jesssunlim334 жыл бұрын

    These videos are so helpful!! Amazing job :)

  • @marcelorodriguesbr
    @marcelorodriguesbr3 жыл бұрын

    Thank's for this video, Excellent work!!!

  • @sawsanalh2802
    @sawsanalh28025 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video, it's great!

  • @sunshine_prophylaxis8540
    @sunshine_prophylaxis85402 жыл бұрын

    Oh my gosh, this was so helpful! Thank you so much for posting this!

  • @Pindakeshi
    @Pindakeshi5 ай бұрын

    Exellent video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! General practitioner from the Netherlands here

  • @joelouisscilabra3138
    @joelouisscilabra31387 ай бұрын

    Very helpful review of such an important test. Very well done.

  • @Vincee967
    @Vincee9675 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos Sir, you are a great teacher!

  • @obayal-raslan8403
    @obayal-raslan8403 Жыл бұрын

    I tried to understand the details of this test and the difference between spontaneous and gaze-evoked (cerebellar) nystagmus in many neurology books. This video is way better than anything I read about these aspects. Thank you

  • @ntinalondon
    @ntinalondon9 ай бұрын

    You're awesome!! neuro resident here from Greece. Thank you very much!

  • @manvikatiwari4646
    @manvikatiwari46462 ай бұрын

    Beautifully explained. Thank you

  • @jamesburge3977
    @jamesburge397710 ай бұрын

    aaaah...now I get it!! Thanks for putting in all that effort to make a great teaching video.

  • @nightlydreamer_
    @nightlydreamer_3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, learned a lot!

  • @alfarouqelboom8465
    @alfarouqelboom84652 ай бұрын

    great explanation. Much appreciated sir!

  • @patrickgomez29
    @patrickgomez293 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! 🙏 Greetings from Vienna,Austria

  • @ajh195
    @ajh1954 жыл бұрын

    Hello Peter your videos are simply amazing because you actually record with real patients and explain everything.... Medical school student from Denmark. Thank you very much

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, this is why I make these videos!

  • @flavio339
    @flavio339 Жыл бұрын

    Damn, this is one high grade teaching skill! Congrats!

  • @manishaent6872
    @manishaent68724 жыл бұрын

    Amazing videos. Thank you so much !

  • @life-mm5do
    @life-mm5do2 жыл бұрын

    Very educational videos with explanations of different nystagmus and technique .

  • @imo5039
    @imo50399 ай бұрын

    This is amazing! Thank you!

  • @tja4201
    @tja42014 жыл бұрын

    Nice sequence of vertigo/nystagmus videos. Just left a two day Masterclass with Kingma, van den Berg and Widdershoven. A pitty regular medical curriculum does not pay that much attention on these symptoms. Physicians could do a lot more in diagnostics and therapy. Keep up the good work!

  • @huhucat12
    @huhucat123 жыл бұрын

    what a great video! Thank u!

  • @felixbuffet1301
    @felixbuffet1301 Жыл бұрын

    As a medical student, your videos are by far one the top notch in the medical field. I dream of being as good as you in teaching others some arduous medical notions. For the sake of patients! A big thanks from France! Don't hesitate if you come by Burgundy, doors open! :)

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been to Burgundy before, happy to be invited back!

  • @ahmedkhaleel1025
    @ahmedkhaleel10253 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir, great video.

  • @deepikaperera2419
    @deepikaperera24192 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much, sir. The video is very informative and concise. I learn a lot from this video

  • @Squiderrant
    @Squiderrant2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic. Thank you

  • @ahmedfarag1336
    @ahmedfarag13363 жыл бұрын

    Great channel, great videos, I intend to finish The whole thing enshaa allah, thanks a lot prof.

  • @latifaalmutairi8830
    @latifaalmutairi88302 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @paulof2028
    @paulof20282 жыл бұрын

    I im from Brazil, Pará, thank for your video !!!!

  • @muzafferbalaban382
    @muzafferbalaban3823 жыл бұрын

    Described perfektly. Thank you.

  • @ejazmohdkhan
    @ejazmohdkhan3 жыл бұрын

    Great video sir

  • @marcelamoonstruck3094
    @marcelamoonstruck3094 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much teacher

  • @martinalazzari6182
    @martinalazzari6182 Жыл бұрын

    Me encanto ! Super practico y consizo 🫶

  • @drash8593
    @drash8593 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @killua9982
    @killua99824 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @Valcreee
    @Valcreee Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for contributing to the medical community with this video. Listened to Dr. Newman-Toker podcast so this video was helpful to see some actual examples of what he was describing.

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Жыл бұрын

    Was that on curbsiders?

  • @Valcreee

    @Valcreee

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PeterJohns yes sir

  • @joyasamuel5213
    @joyasamuel52132 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic

  • @robertocarlosdiazalvarez3628
    @robertocarlosdiazalvarez36284 жыл бұрын

    good stuff

  • @knosis
    @knosis2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. Great entertainment value haha

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. The dog video is funny!

  • @ORL-HNS
    @ORL-HNS3 жыл бұрын

    Really right ,never like dizziness

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    3 жыл бұрын

    ??

  • @ORL-HNS

    @ORL-HNS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PeterJohns Thanks sir , made me understand HINTS exam easily

  • @hindbennis9106
    @hindbennis91064 күн бұрын

    Love your videos! In case of using a vestibular sedative like sulpiride in the last 24h, and the patient has no nystagmus. Do you do the HINTS? And would it be affected by it?

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    4 күн бұрын

    I've seen studies show that vestibular sedatives can decrease the amplitude of the nystagmus, but I've never seen a study showing that it would completely suppress it. I've remove fixation with a piece of paper if I didn't see nystagmus at rest.

  • @rumpledstilski9348
    @rumpledstilski93484 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos, they are wonderful! I have basically memorized that in vestibular neuritis the nystagmus points away from the affected side and the head impulse test is abnormal when turning head toward the affected side. But I don’t intuitively understand why this is. Can you please explain?

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is not intuitive, but a result of the complicated anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of vertigo. The first half of this video describes how a left vestibular neuritis will cause nystagmus to the right. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJ6sqKehhN26lqg.html&

  • @Muhammad-gq8fs
    @Muhammad-gq8fsАй бұрын

    I really enjoy your vertigo videos and infact I recommend every doctor to watch your videos on this extremely topic. Just one thing that I think is not right: I note that You are advocating impulsing the head from right or left lateral to midline instead of jerking it laterally from midline primary position. This must be your own or someone else’s modification, because I have not read this method of Head Inpulse in any neuro text including Adam and Victor’s and Blumefeld’s Neuroanatomy through Clinical cases. Professor Haymalgayi who described this test has also not described it and he is the guy here in Australia who does all the advances testing in spinning chair and much more when no one can figure out what is making the patient dizzy. And I dont conceive how test ever will or ever could be validated the way it is being suggested here. There are simple and very obvious anatomical and physiological reasons why it cant be validated this way: the premise and foundation for the head impulse testing is the anatomical and physiological fact that in primary position the gaze centring mechanisms on right and left are firing equally which is necessary to keep the gaze in primary position. This ‘centring tendency’ is the default position and action of the brain mechanisms that mediate it. Lateral head position with fixing the eye on a point straight ahead is a deviation and a departure from the default state. Once you move the head to right or left those impulses have changed in their amplitude and firing frequencies to keep the eyes fixated straight forward. Moving the head from right or left lateral to the midline is not the same as jerking the head to right or left lateral because neuronal impulses have to change to make adjustments. When you move the head away from that specifically defined primary gaze position, then you have changed the afferent impulses firing rates and amplitudes of the brain mechanisms and impulses that mediate the VOR hence and keep the eyes centred, thus altering the validity of the test. So we can not just swap the test around(even if it is with the noble intentions of making it more comfortable for the patient). The primary position for VOR and semicricular canals is the primary gaze position which is head horizontal in neutral position and looking straight forward as in anatomical postion and the eyes gazing straight forward. But I look forward to be corrected and educated by such a learned and highly esteemed colleague like yourself. If you have any clinical references I look forward to reading them and the primary references they mention. Regards A 26th year medical student.

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Ай бұрын

    Watch David Newman-Toker demonstrating the HIT in this video on this page. sjrhem.ca/resident-clinical-pearl-hints-exam-in-acute-vestibular-syndrome/ And watch Jorge Kattah perform it also kzread.info/dash/bejne/d4aLldurqMW0o8o.html Here is Dr. Kattah performing the HIT in another patient. kzread.info/dash/bejne/maul1KmPgdWso84.html&ab_channel=WangcaiGao Drs' Newman-Toker and Kattach were the principle authors of the HINTS studies. They have both observed my technique of performing the HIT. Dr. Newman-Toker in person when I attended a vestibular masterclass at Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Kattah when I sent them a video of my head impulse test. He noted "very nice technique" when he replied to me. I've met Dr. Halmagyi as well, and he is a very nice man.

  • @Muhammad-gq8fs
    @Muhammad-gq8fsАй бұрын

    19:20 are you saying that if nystagmus is left beating then in vestibular neuritis head impulse will also be when head is impulses to the left. That is opposite to what you have been saying earlier in this video (and many other videos). If his left vestibular nerve is affected, his HI test would have catchup saccade when his head is turned impulsed to the RIGHT, not left side. Or did misunderstood something? Would appreciate if you can clarify please. Thanks.

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, you did misunderstand something. For the case that begin at 18:24 I said his nystagmus was beating towards the RIGHT, which means his LEFT ear was affected. And that the HIT should be abnormal when the head is turned rapidly to the LEFT, which it was. And I'm pretty sure I never said in any of my videos that if the left ear is affected, that the HIT is abnormal when the head is turned to the right. Watch the video again.

  • @Muhammad-gq8fs

    @Muhammad-gq8fs

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot for the reply and the clarification. Yes I think I have gotten it wrong for this video. I have watched all your videos many many times so don’t remember which one if at all you said what I claim here. I pribably am wrong on this but will let you know if find out I wasn’t because; addition to perpetually recommending your channel to all docs, I am watch your videos rather regularly on a recurrent basis when I want to revise and remind myself.. If at all you said anything it was in all likelihood the verbal/oral equivalent of a ‘typo’ error which all of us can make time to time.

  • @user-kj5lw9in7v
    @user-kj5lw9in7v5 жыл бұрын

    What the rotatory chair test

  • @doculam
    @doculam Жыл бұрын

    is the HIT positive for other causes of peripheral vertigo? e.g BPPV and Labrynthitis

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Жыл бұрын

    The head impulse test detects if there a problem with the vestibular nerve. So you shouldn't see an abnormal HIT in a patient with BPPV, but you should see it with labyrinthitis. Vestibular neuritis is much more common than labyrinthitis.

  • @lucasglatthardt5368
    @lucasglatthardt5368 Жыл бұрын

    Does VPPB also causes abnormal Head impulse If tested?

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Жыл бұрын

    I assume you mean BPPV. And the answer is no.

  • @kchadala
    @kchadala Жыл бұрын

    Nice video. But sometimes it is imposible to do such tests with old vomiting patients with osteoporosis in the neck who dont collaborate with me. Really - I dont like vertigo :)

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    Жыл бұрын

    The only clinicians who like vertigo understand it well.

  • @ahmedthamir9531
    @ahmedthamir95312 жыл бұрын

    I cant thank you enough sir .. but thank you anyway ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ , your videos are all simple educational practical and funny ☺️ .. stay safe sir.

  • @life-mm5do
    @life-mm5do2 жыл бұрын

    What about bilateral loss signs.

  • @PeterJohns

    @PeterJohns

    2 жыл бұрын

    My understanding is they will have bilateral abnormal HIT. I have not seen it myself.

  • @alfredopampanga9356
    @alfredopampanga93562 жыл бұрын

    Excellent teacher. Why were my teachers in med school so mediocre? There’s no substitute for intelligence. And it’s on display here like a flashing neon light. ( But not an a normal head impulse)