Emergency Headache: Diagnosis and Management

By: Friedman and David W. and Orr and Serena L. and Benjamin W. and Dodick

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Synopsis: 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.