Pouya B Bastani, Hector Rieiro, Shervin Badihian, Jorge Otero-Millan, Nathan Farrell, Max Parker, David Newman-Toker, Yuxin Zhu, Ali Saber Tehrani
BACKGROUND: There are ≈5 million annual dizziness visits to US emergency departments, of which vestibular strokes account for over 250 000. The head impulse, nystagmus, and test of skew eye examination can accurately distinguish vestibular strokes from peripheral dizziness. However, the eye-movement signs are subtle, and lack of familiarity and difficulty with recognition of abnormal eye movements are significant barriers to widespread emergency department use. To break this barrier, we sought to assess the accuracy of EyePhone, our smartphone eye-tracking application, for quantifying nystagmus...
January 16, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association