Emergency Headache : Diagnosis and Management (Hardcover)

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.