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Emergency Headache - Diagnosis and Management

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Will you meet the challenges of rare headaches in a time-constrained environment? Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this guide from leading experts in neurology and emergency medicine offers practitioners a direct insight into the diagnostic and management approach to a patient presenting with headache to the emergency department.

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1. Introduction Serena L. Orr and David W. Dodick; 2. Epidemiology of headache in the emergency department Serena L. Orr and David W. Dodick; 3. Approach to history taking and the physical examination Suzanne Christie and Garth Dickinson; 4. Approach to investigations Meir H. Scheinfeld and Benjamin W. Friedman; 5. Thunderclap headache in the emergency department James Ducharme; 6. Other secondary headaches in the emergency department Michael J. Marmura and Benjamin W. Friedman; 7. The migraine patient in the emergency department Serena L. Orr and Brian H. Rowe; 8. The patient with a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia in the emergency department Anne Ducros; 9. Other primary headache disorders that can present to the emergency department Yasmin Idu Jion and Brian M. Grosberg; 10. Medication overuse headache in the emergency department Chia-Chun Chiang, Todd J. Schwedt, Shuu-Jiun Wang and David W. Dodick; 11. Approach to the pediatric patient with headache in the emergency department Serena L. Orr and David Sheridan; 12. Approach to pregnant or lactating patients with headache in the emergency department Sylvia Lucas and Esther Rawner; 13. Approach to the elderly patient with headache in the emergency department Fabio Frediani and Gennaro Bussone; 14. Preventing emergency department visits in primary headache patients and prevention of bounce-backs to the emergency department Wm. Jeptha Davenport.

About the author

Serena L. Orr is a senior Pediatric Neurology resident at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Ontario. She is actively engaged in headache research; having led several award-winning research projects in the area.Benjamin W. Friedman is an emergency physician and clinical researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is regarded as an international expert on the intersection of headache and emergency medicine.David W. Dodick is Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. He is President of the International Headache Society, Chair of the American Migraine Foundation and Former Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia, and Past-President of the American Headache Society.

Product details

Authors Serena L. Friedman Orr
Assisted by David W. Dodick (Editor), Benjamin W. Friedman (Editor), Serena L. Orr (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.03.2025
 
EAN 9781009592659
ISBN 978-1-0-0959265-9
No. of pages 172
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine

MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology

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