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Headache in an emergency room in Brazil.
CONTEXT When experiencing a headache attack, Brazilian patients usually look for a primary care service, where they are seen by general clinicians. In the town of Ribeirão Preto, these clinicians routinely refer patients to the Emergency Room of the University Hospital. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of primary care by analyzing retrospectively the medical r...
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H eadache is seen in the emergency room (ER) on a daily basis and is a vague symptom, which can be a part of many different types of conditions and diseases. Although most people who come to the ER will have a benign headache, it is important to make sure that dangerous causes of headache are ruled out. There are a number of features that may alert someone to a secondary cause of headache. This...
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The aim of this study was to analyze the management of headache patients presenting to the emergency room (ER) at a university hospital in Zagreb. Retrospective analysis of all patients with headache was carried out during 2007. Patients were analyzed according to the diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, treatment and further referral. Among 6225 patients, 1385 (22.3%) complained of headache; ther...
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Thomas N. Ward, MD Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Dartmouth Medical School, Co-director, Dartmouth Headache Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency room (ER) at 3 am. The prior evening he had had the sudden onset of “the worst headache of my life” with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.As he had a prior history of migraine, he d...
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OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal conditions have an enormous and growing impact worldwide. In spite of that, some clinicians are not confident in their own musculoskeletal examination skills. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in an emergency room, and the frequency of musculoskeletal physical examination description on those cases. METHODS This was a cross-secti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802000000300001