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Fast Facts: Headaches, 2nd edn
By Richard Peatfield and
David W Dodick
Published 2002
104 pages, 30 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-903734-21-6
$25.00 (Our delivery cost is a flat fee of $9.00 so the more you order the better!)
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 trends
The authors
Richard Peatfield
Consultant Neurologist West London Neurosciences Centre Charing Cross Hospital London, UK
David W Dodick
Associate Professor Mayo Medical School Consultant Neurologist Department of Neurology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale Arizona, USA
