Fast facts

"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" -- from website ebook

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Health Press Ltd.

Editions

1

Pages

103

ISBN

9781903734216

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