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Headache Questions 320.A 21-year-old college student is brought by her roommate to the emergency department (ED). The roommate s ...

322.A 67-year-old woman presents to the ED complaining of a 2-day his- tory of general malaise, subjective fevers, chills, diffu ...

Headache 347 324.A 22-year-old woman presents to the ED complaining of headache. She states that while at home she experienced a ...

326.A 27-year-old woman with known idiopathic intracranial hyperten- sion (IIH) presents to the ED complaining of a bifrontotemp ...

Headache 349 329.A 55-year-old woman presents to the ED complaining of 1 day of a left-sided headache that is associated with sc ...

331.As a senior resident in the ED, an intern calls you over to see a patient he treated for a migraine headache. The patient is ...

Headache 351 333.A 22-year-old woman with known IIH who is scheduled for a ven- triculoperitoneal shunt in 2 weeks presents to t ...

335.A 35-year-old woman presents to the ED for the second time. She is complaining of fever, neck stiffness, and photophobia. Sh ...

Headache 353 337.A 75-year-old man presents to the ED with a depressed level of con- sciousness. His wife is at the bedside and ...

338.A 43-year-old homeless man presents to the ED with fever and nuchal rigidity. His mental status is depressed but his neurolo ...

Headache 355 341.A 78-year-old man presents to triage of your ED complaining of gradual onset of headache over the course of the ...

343.A 35-year-old woman presents to the ED complaining of headache and blurry vision. She has had daily headaches for 3 months a ...

Headache Answers 320.The answer is a.(Rosen, pp 1527-1541.)This patient presents with symptoms consistent with meningitis. Antib ...

358 Emergency Medicine such as aphasia, visual disturbances, or hemiparesis. This patient does not exhibit any of these findings ...

Headache Answers 359 people experience a constant, dull pain that is nonthrobbing and without the ancillary features associated ...

360 Emergency Medicine Diazepam(a)is useful for treating cervical muscle spasm and torticollis. At high doses, it has the princi ...

Headache Answers 361 setting include carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (ie, acetazolamide) and loop diuretics (ie, furosemide). Tran ...

362 Emergency Medicine a cerebral aneurysm but LP should be performed to confirm the presence of intracranial bleeding prior to ...

Headache Answers 363 analysis is helpful in diagnosing TA, but waiting for serum analysis inap- propriately delays treatment. Th ...