Common Pitfalls in the Evaluation and Management of Headache: Case-Based Learning
Cambridge University Press, 4/10/2014
EAN 9781107636101, ISBN10: 1107636108
Paperback, 199 pages, 24.5 x 18.9 x 1 cm
Language: English
Although headache is one of the most common complaints that patients bring to their clinicians, few physicians feel confident about its clinical evaluation and management. Is it a problem in its own right, or the presenting symptom of a serious medical condition? Loder, Rizzoli and Burch bring a practical case-based approach to this complex ailment, highlighting specific areas of diagnostic uncertainty in headache evaluation and treatment. Each case is taken from real-world clinical practice and reviews the diagnostic and treatment process in a systematic manner, identifying common challenges and pitfalls and describing newly issued treatment guidelines. Written in a question and answer format, this concise and useful guide in the Common Pitfalls series provides a step-by-step guide for everyday clinical practice, invaluable to anyone dealing with headache on a front-line basis.
Preface
1. Confusing one benign headache with another
2. Mistaking primary headache for another condition
3. Missing dangerous causes of headache
4. Pitfalls in diagnostic testing
imaging and lumbar puncture
5. Pitfalls in diagnostic testing
blood, urine and other tests
6. When historical or examination findings are missed or misinterpreted
7. Errors in management of acute headache
8. Pitfalls in drug therapy to prevent headaches
9. Pitfalls in nonpharmacologic treatment of headache
10. Challenges and special situations in headache management
11. Medicolegal pitfalls in headache management
Index.
'This outstanding set of cases and discussions addresses questions that everyone in the practice of medicine has pondered at one time or another. This significantly adds to the options for primary care clinicians that go beyond the discussions in standard neurology books.' Doody's Reviews