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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Feb 2021
ReviewHeadache in the Emergency Department: Avoiding Misdiagnosis of Dangerous Secondary Causes, An Update.
- Ryan Raam and Ramin R Tabatabai.
- Keck School of Medicine of USC, LAC+USC Emergency Medicine Residency, 1200 North State Street #1011, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: ryan.raam@med.usc.edu.
- Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2021 Feb 1; 39 (1): 67-85.
AbstractIn the initial assessment of the headache patient, the emergency physician must consider several dangerous secondary causes of headache. A thorough history and physical examination, along with consideration of a comprehensive differential diagnosis may alert the emergency physician to the diagnosis of a secondary headache particularly when the history is accompanied by any of the following clinical features: sudden/severe onset, focal neurologic deficits, altered mental status, advanced age, active or recent pregnancy, coagulopathy, malignancy, fever, visual deficits, and/or loss of consciousness.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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