Emergency treatment of headache.
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Abstract
Headache is a frequent presenting complaint in the emergency department. Once a diagnosis is established, and significant organic disease can be ruled out, relief of pain must be addressed. Referral for follow-up care and narcotic habituation is a recurrent problem for the emergency physician. This article discusses the differential diagnosis of headache, evaluation of the emergency room patient, and treatment of the patient with headache.
Medical subject headings
- Brain Abscess
- Brain Abscess/complications
- Brain Neoplasms
- Brain Neoplasms/complications
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Cerebral Hemorrhage/complications
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Giant Cell Arteritis/complications
- Headache
- Headache/diagnosis
- Headache/etiology
- Headache/therapy
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Hypertension/complications
- Meningitis
- Meningitis/complications