This audio is an excerpt from the International Emergency Medicine Education Project's online resource on headaches. It details the assessment and management of headaches in the emergency room, covering primary headache disorders (migraine, tension, and cluster headaches) and secondary headache disorders (caused by other conditions like subarachnoid hemorrhage, meningitis, or brain tumors). The excerpt includes diagnostic criteria, red flag symptoms, treatment protocols, and imaging examples. It also addresses special considerations for pregnant patients, children, and the elderly. Finally, it presents a case study illustrating the practical application of the discussed principles.

Headache (2024)

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International Emergency Medicine Education Project is an international project aiming to promote Emergency Medicine and provide free educational resources for medical students/interns and medical teachers/educators. The audio podcast is one of the components of the project to increase accessibility to the content provided by international contributors. The content of this project is freely available in iBook, pdf, eBook, website (iem-student.org)and audio formats for every medical trainee in the world. We support free open access medical education (FOAM). All materials are free to use, download and share.

Headache (2024)

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