I used to do rotary chair during my externship at Walter Reed. This
was the worst part of my externship. I loved doing VNG (even today),
but I really did not like doing the rotary chair. Even today, you
won't see me to do that! But as a student, you have to learn how to
do rotary chair, right?!

When I was doing this, I focused on asking the patients about
themselves--where they're from, their families, jobs, etc. Sometimes,
I just start with the letter "A" and have them name an animal that
begins with that letter and I proceed to do this through every letter
of the alphabet! This way I can anticipate what animals they might
come up with. You do this with tasking on calorics, as well. If you
run out of topic, just switch to math problems. That always works!

Hope this helps!

Jill


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Julia Fitzer <fitzerjulie@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm now working out the snags of doing vestibular testing. I'm doing Dix
> Hallpike with video recording, rotary chair, videonystagmography. Someone
> today as I was practicing on them gave me the idea of first doing a "test"
> of the communication by having them count to 10 and I count to 10 with the
> rotary chair door closed before I even start with anything, to make sure
> they are transmitting via my FM and that they can hear me via the intercom
> microphone. I was also just thinking that I might try to make the topic of
> conversation with the rotary chair when I'm trying to task during tests
> requiring tasking something very narrow so I have the context to help me
> out.
>
> Any other tricks people have up their sleeve that they use? I know it'll get
> easier as I get more and more familiar with the protocal as just knowing
> what buttons to push won't take up as much of my attention and I can devote
> more of my attention to hearing my patients.
>
> Julie
>
>



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