Emergency Headache: Diagnosis and Management

Will you meet the challenges of rare headaches in a time-constrained environment? Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this guide from leading experts in neurology and emergency medicine offers practitioners a direct insight into the diagnostic and management approach to a patient presenting with headache to the emergency department. Do you need current and pragmatic guidance in meeting the challenges of acute headache assessment under pressure? Authored by renowned experts in neurology and emergency medicine, this versatile handbook offers practitioners a broad perspective on common, less-common, and rare headache disorders to enable accurate patient diagnosis and effective treatment. Featuring a multidisciplinary team of authors, this textbook provides clinicians who work in acute care settings with the right tools to recognise and understand primary headache disorders and life threatening causes of headache. Covering the best available evidence and practice standards from the emergency department, this guide provides direct answers to challenging management problems. Invaluable and extensively researched, practitioners are able to confidently evaluate a spectrum of conditions, while balancing resource utilization and cost considerations in a time-constrained environment.

• | Author: Benjamin W. Friedman, Serena L. Orr, David W. Dodick
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781009592659
• | ISBN-10: 1009592653