Emergency Headache
Diagnosis and Management
Published on 20. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-1-009-59265-9 (ISBN)
Description
Do you need current and pragmatic guidance in meeting the challenges of acute headache assessment under pressure? Authored by renowned experts in neurology and emergency medicine, this versatile handbook offers practitioners a broad perspective on common, less-common, and rare headache disorders to enable accurate patient diagnosis and effective treatment. Featuring a multidisciplinary team of authors, this textbook provides clinicians who work in acute care settings with the right tools to recognise and understand primary headache disorders and life threatening causes of headache. Covering the best available evidence and practice standards from the emergency department, this guide provides direct answers to challenging management problems. Invaluable and extensively researched, practitioners are able to confidently evaluate a spectrum of conditions, while balancing resource utilization and cost considerations in a time-constrained environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 19 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, color; 10 Halftones, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-59265-9 (9781009592659)
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11/2017
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Persons
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.
Content
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.