LEADER 02279nam 22003615u 450 001 996339102003316 005 20230706174431.0 010 $a1-912776-01-4 035 $a(CKB)3580000000000782 035 $a(OCoLC)606972846 035 $a(SZ-BaSKA)277591 035 $a(MiAaPQ)1056454 035 $a(PPN)267640315 035 $a(EXLCZ)993580000000000782 100 $a20211006d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu||||| 200 10$aFast Facts : Headaches /$fRichard Peatfield, David W. Dodick 205 $a2nd edition. 210 $aBasel $cS. Karger$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (104 pages) $c30 figures 311 $a1-903734-21-5 330 $aThe 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 517 $aFast Facts 606 $aNeurology 615 14$aNeurology 700 $aPeatfield$b Richard$01214976 801 0$bUKSKG 801 1$bUKSKG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996339102003316 996 $aFast Facts: Headaches$92806208 997 $aUNISA