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A UK based Emergency Medicine podcast for anyone who works in emergency care. The St Emlym's team are all passionate educators and clinicians who strive to bring you the best evidence based education.
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Friday Aug 01, 2014
Friday Aug 01, 2014
We've all had headaches, but not often severe enough to prompt us to seek help in an Emergency Department.
In our practice 10% of patients who do present to the ED with a primary presentation of headache will have serious pathology and our job as Emergency Physicians is to work out who these are. Key to this is actively ruling out the life-threatening and life-changing diagnoses:
- Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
- Meningitis
- Tumours and Space Occupying Lesions
- Temporal Arteritis
Listen to Simon and Iain discuss how to approach these patients here
Further Resources
Headaches at Life in the Fast Lane - a great summary from the LiTFL crew
NICE Guidelines (NCG150) - diagnosis and management of headaches; there's a flowchart and some red flags although you could read the St Emlyn's summary here!
Headache from the Flipped EM Classroom
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