Treatment of primary headache in the emergency department [4]

Headache

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 840-841

  Mellick, Larry B ^a   Mellick, Gary A ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b American Pain Specialists Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; SUMATRIPTAN;

ALLODYNIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FACE PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MIGRAINE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; THORAX DISEASE; VERTIGO;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SUMATRIPTAN;

EID: 4744371617     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04158_4.x     Document Type: Letter

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