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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know.

Chinthapalli, K; Logan, A-M; Raj, R; Nirmalananthan, N (2018) Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. Clin Med (Lond), 18 (5). pp. 422-427. ISSN 1473-4893 https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.18-5-422
SGUL Authors: Logan, Anne-Marie

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Abstract

Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid haemorrhage). Even in the acute setting the majority of cases are due to primary causes. The role of the attending physician is to take a comprehensive history to diagnose and treat benign headache syndromes while ruling out sinister aetiologies. This brief article summarises the approach to assessment of headache presenting in acute and emergency care.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © Royal College of Physicians 2018. All rights reserved.
Keywords: cluster headache, emergency, headache, meningitis, migraine, subarachnoid haemorrhage, Acute Disease, Brain Neoplasms, Emergency Service, Hospital, General Practitioners, Headache, Headache Disorders, Humans, Meningitis, Bacterial, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Humans, Meningitis, Bacterial, Brain Neoplasms, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Headache Disorders, Headache, Acute Disease, Emergency Service, Hospital, General Practitioners, headache, emergency, subarachnoid haemorrhage, meningitis, migraine, cluster headache, 1103 Clinical Sciences, General Clinical Medicine
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS)
Journal or Publication Title: Clin Med (Lond)
ISSN: 1473-4893
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
4 October 2018Published
Publisher License: Publisher's own licence
PubMed ID: 30287441
Web of Science ID: WOS:000447246300017
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/111821
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.18-5-422

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