Pitfalls in the Management of Headache in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-147

  Swadron, Stuart P ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalgia; Emergency medicine; Headache

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DROPERIDOL; MAGNESIUM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OPIATE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PROCHLORPERAZINE; SUMATRIPTAN;

AKATHISIA; ANAMNESIS; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIGRAINE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TENSION HEADACHE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

EID: 70450240964     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2009.09.007     Document Type: Review

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