Emergency Headache

Do you need current and pragmatic guidance in meeting the challenges of acute headache assessment under pressure? Authored by renowned experts in neurology and emergency medicine, this versatile handbook offers practitioners a broad perspective on common, less-common, and rare headache disorders to enable accurate patient diagnosis and effective treatment. Featuring a multidisciplinary team of authors, this textbook provides clinicians who work in acute care settings with the right tools to recognise and understand primary headache disorders and life threatening causes of headache. Covering the best available evidence and practice standards from the Emergency Department, this guide provides direct answers to challenging management problems. Invaluable and extensively researched, practitioners are able to confidently evaluate a spectrum of conditions, while balancing resource utilization and cost considerations in a time-constrained environment.

Serena L. Orr is a senior Pediatric Neurology resident at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Ontario. She is actively engaged in headache research; having led several award-winning research projects in the area.

Benjamin W. Friedman is an emergency physician and clinical researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is regarded as an international expert on the intersection of headache and emergency medicine.

David W. Dodick is Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. He is President of the International Headache Society, Chair of the American Migraine Foundation and Former Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia, and Past-President of the American Headache Society.

Contributors: Serena L Orr, David W. Dodick, Suzanne Christie, Garth Dickinson, Meir H Scheinfeld, Benjamin W Friedman, James Ducharme, Michael J. Marmura, Brian H. Rowe, Anne Ducros, Yasmin Idu Jion, Brian M. Grosberg, Chia-Chun Chiang, Todd J. Schwedt, Shuu-Jiun Wang, David Sheridan, Sylvia Lucas, Esther Rawner, Fabio Frediani, Gennaro Bussone, Wm. Jeptha Davenport