Headache (Emergency Medicine)
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Headache (Emergency Medicine)“ von Sharon Bord, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Neurologic and Psychiatric Emergencies“. Der Vortrag ist dabei in folgende Kapitel unterteilt:
- Approach to Headache
- Approach to Headache: History
- Approach to Headache: Examination
- Approach to Headache: Diagnosis
Quiz zum Vortrag
Which statement regarding patients presenting with headaches in the emergency department is true?
- A headache can be a constitutional symptom.
- The most common headaches presenting in the emergency department are due to organic disorders.
- Migraine is the only type of headache presenting in the emergency department.
- Secondary headache disorders include cluster and tension headaches.
- Headaches are the most common presenting symptoms seen in the emergency department.
Which of the following can be described as a thunder clap headache?
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Migraine
- Tension
- Cluster
- Space-occupying lesions
Which of the following questions are NOT asked when approaching a case of headache?
- Do you wake up in the middle of the night to urinate?
- Do you have any difficulties talking?
- Is this the worst headache that you have ever had?
- What were you doing when the headaches started?
- Did the headache develop with any kind of exertion?
A patient presented to the emergency department with headache due to probable increased intracranial pressure. Which of the following physical examination findings favor the diagnosis?
- Papilledema
- Neck stiffness
- Decreased visual acuity
- Abdominal swelling
- Right arm weakness
Which of the following situations requires further diagnostic testing?
- A 42-year-old male with acute headache of very high intensity
- A 23-year-old male having a headache associated with severe throbbing pain on one side of the head, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. He says that he has had this type of headache several times before.
- A 26-year-old female with headache for the past 4 days with a history of increased workload and stress since the previous week
- A 24-year-old female with unilateral headache associated with aura and coffee as the precipitating factor
- A 32-year-old male with runny nose and past history of chronic sinusitis
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Dozent des Vortrages Headache (Emergency Medicine)
Sharon Bord, MD
Dr. Sharon Bord is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland, USA.
She obtained her MD at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2004 and then completed residency training at Boston Medical Center.
She has a focus on both undergraduate and graduate medical education, and is a member of the Teaching College, a group of faculty members in the Department of Emergency Medicine dedicated to educational endeavors for residents and medical students.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Bord teaches courses on Emergency Medicine.
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