Practical Assessment and Treatment of the Patient with Headaches in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic

Practical Assessment and Treatment of the Patient with Headaches in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic

Migraine is an extremely common condition affecting approximately 28 million Americans. Fully 1 in every 6 adult women suffers from this malady. Patients with migraine are frequently seen in the Emergency Room and Urgent Care Clinic for acute treatment of their headaches. ER and Urgent Care physicia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcus, Dawn A. (Author), Bain, Philip A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Emergency medicine.
Neurology.
Medicine & Public Health.
Emergency Medicine.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Overview of headache in the emergency department
  • Getting started
  • Secondary headaches
  • General treatment strategies
  • Treating the child and adolescent with acute headache
  • Treatment of pregnant and breastfeeding patients with acute headache in the ED
  • Treatment of the older adult patient (>50 years old) with acute headache in the ED
  • Managing risk in the ED
  • After the ED: arranging post-ED follow-up care.

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