Acute migraine in the Emergency Department: Extending European principles of management

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 17-24

  Martelletti, Paolo ^a   Farinelli, Ivano ^a   Steiner, Timothy J ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency Department; Emergency headache; Global Campaign; Migraine; Secondary headaches

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRYPTAMINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; TRYPTAMINES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 52549121281     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-008-0188-1     Document Type: Review

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