9 January 2018 12:54 am Views - 2946
Vertigo is one of the commonest complaints made by patients visiting an ENT clinic. When it comes to a scientific literature, medical literature is a vast genre, with a history extending back to 1600 BC. These books, carrying information regarding various diseases and treatment methods from various civilizations, including witchcraft, gradually evolved parallel to the advancement of medicine over the years. Today they are an essential and an inevitable part of any person in the field of medicine. To categorize broadly, this genre includes books that provide you with some information on a whole area of specialty, and the books that are more ‘specialized’, addressing a certain topic; a disease or a symptom for an example, in depth. Majority of the latter kind, targeting specialists and specialist trainees as their focus, are written using technical terms and a complex manner that even doctors find it incredibly difficult to understand, let alone general population.
Not only do the authors give the cause for vertigo, they go in to details on how to arrive at a definitive diagnosis by excluding other causes and how to treat the specific conditions afterwards.
Consultant ENT surgeon Dr. Chandra Jayasuriya,( MBBS, DLO, MS (ORLHNS), FRCS (Edin), ), who is the main author of this book conducts the vertigo clinic at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka. She has a special interest in the area of Vertigo and has attended numerous local and international conferences on vertigo, both as a delegate and a resource person. She is reputed among the post graduate trainees as well as the medial students as a great teacher and a mentor. Visit www.chandrajayasuriya.com to obtain more details on her other work in the field of medicine.