02279nam 22003615u 450 99633910200331620230706174431.01-912776-01-4(CKB)3580000000000782(OCoLC)606972846(SZ-BaSKA)277591(MiAaPQ)1056454(PPN)267640315(EXLCZ)99358000000000078220211006d2002 uy 0engurunu|||||Fast Facts : Headaches /Richard Peatfield, David W. Dodick2nd edition.Basel S. Karger20021 online resource (104 pages) 30 figures1-903734-21-5 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 trendsFast FactsNeurologyNeurologyPeatfield Richard1214976UKSKGUKSKGBOOK996339102003316Fast Facts: Headaches2806208UNISA