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Approach to Acute Headache: A Flipped Classroom Module for Emergency Medicine Trainees

Jeff Riddell, MD*, Stacy Sawtelle, MD^, Paul Jhun, MD‡, James Comes, MD^, Ramin Tabatabai, MD~, Daniel Joseph, MD~, Jan Shoenberger, MD~, Esther Chen, MD‡, Christopher Fee, MD‡, and Stuart Swadron, MD~

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21980/J8WC73Issue 1:1 No ratings yet.
At the end of this module, the learner will be able to: 1) list the diagnoses critical to the emergency physician that may present with headache; 2) identify key historical and examination findings that help differentiate primary (benign) from secondary (serious) causes of headache; 3) discuss the indications for diagnostic imaging, lumbar puncture and laboratory testing in patients with headache; 4) recognize life-threatening diagnoses on CT imaging and CSF examination; 5) describe treatment strategies to relieve headache symptoms.
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