Main description:

"Critical Decisions in Headache Management, Second Edition", provides a practical and clinical approach to headache management. It is designed to be an accessible, and user-friendly guide to clinical decision making for the practicing physician evaluating a patient with a headache, whether in the office or emergency department setting. The text covers elderly, children and women sufferers, acute and chronic sufferers, and routine and challenging patients. It is geared to the GP, neurologist and internal medicine practitioner in an algorithmic approach, with useful differential diagnostic ladders and treatment algorithms. This work presents a clear and concise discussion of a wide variety of headaches: migraines, tension-type headaches, post-traumatic and cervicogenic headaches, cluster headaches, medication-induced headaches, and headaches associated with space-occupying lesions.

Contents:

BASIC CONSIDERATIONS 1. Headache History 2. Classification of Headache 3. Practical Pathophysiology of Headache 4. History and Physical Examination 5. Radiologic Investigation of Headache MANAGEMENT OF HEADACHE 6. Tension-Type Headache 7. Post-Traumatic and Cervicogenic Headaches 8. Migraine 9. Migraine in Women 10. Migraine in Children and Adolescents 11. Cluster Headache 12. Headache Associated with Space-Occupying Lesions 13. Inflammatory Headaches 14. Cranial Neuralgias and Facial Pain 15. Headache of Cerebrovascular Origin 16. Medication-Induced Headaches 17. Emergency Management of Acute Headache 18. Headache in Children 19. Headache in the Elderly Appendix Headache Treatment Protocols