Fast Facts : Headaches /

The management of people suffering with headaches forms a substantial part of the workload of the family physician and the practising neurologist. While some patients can perform normally using self-medication, headache can be a symptom of a potentially serious illness and disabling headaches, eithe...

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Fast Facts
1. Verfasser:
Peatfield, R. C.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Basel : S. Karger, 2002
Ausgabe:
2nd edition.
Zusammenfassung:
The management of people suffering with headaches forms a substantial part of the workload of the family physician and the practising neurologist. While some patients can perform normally using self-medication, headache can be a symptom of a potentially serious illness and disabling headaches, either continuous or as intermittent attacks, require careful assessment and treatment. 'Fast Facts: Headaches' equips the primary care physician with the knowledge required to accurately investigate, assess and treat (or refer) the patient presenting with disabling primary headache. • Enables physicians to distinguish between the benign and potentially life-threatening condition • An expert guide to differential diagnosis • Reviews current processes of assessment, summarises current thinking on pathogenesis and covers management of common forms of disabling headache • Key points are summarised at each chapter-end and clear, simple diagrams and tables support clinical information Contents: • Differential diagnosis • Epidemiology • Clinical features of migraine and tension headaches • Mechanisms of migraine • Precipitating causes • Acute treatment • Prophylactic treatment • Chronic daily headache • Cluster headache; Post-traumatic headache • Future trends
Umfang:
1 online resource (104 pages) : 30 figures
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Text in English
ISBN:
1-912776-01-4
Schlagworte:
Neurology
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