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| What type of headaches occur as a symptom of an underlying disease? |
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| During which type of headaches does the brain go back to normal afterwards? |
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| What is the major way to determine the cause of a headache? |
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1. How long have you had it?
2. What do you think it is due to?
3. Where is it at?
4. What is it like? |
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| What four questions should you ask about a headache? |
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| What type of headache comes for 2 or 3 days, then goes away, then can come back 2 months later and do the same thing? |
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| What is the most common trigger for a headache? |
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| Pain in the dura of the brain will be referred to which lobe? |
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| Which nerve would be suspected if a pt had pain their frontal lobe region? |
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| Where would one feel pain if their Middle Cerebral Artery was ruptured? |
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| What type of headache would be described as "tight and constricting"? |
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| What would you worry about if someone said their headache felt like "pulsating pain"? |
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| A headache caused by the temporal artery being inflamed is secondary to what condition? |
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| The first "thunderclap" headache caused by a SAH. It may go away and come back later. |
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| Intracerebral hypertensive hemorrhage |
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| Likely to present with the “first and the worst” headache and crescendo headache over minutes. |
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| What type of headache is usually unilateral, pulsating, aggravated by routine physical activity, and causes N/V? |
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| What type of headache is diagnosed by ruling out migraine symptoms? |
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| What type of migraine aura is explained like this: Tingling may begin, for example, in one hand and then, over a period of minutes, ascend the arm to the elbow and then jump to the ipsilateral side of the face |
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| What is the most common type of migraine aura? |
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| Late Life Migraine Accompaniments |
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| What is it called when the aura of a migraine is present but the headache does not occur? It is usually present later in life and can resemble a TIA. |
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| What is the second procedure to order if a pt with a thunderclap headache has a normal CT? |
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| What specific migraine medication is the most successful? |
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| What is the most common type of cluster headache? |
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| What times of the day are usual for people with cluster headaches with circadian rhythms to experience one? |
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| What kind of headache offers no releif from laying down or moving around? |
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lacrimation
*conjuctival injection is 2nd |
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| What is the most common autonomic symptom of a cluster headache? |
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oxygen
*and then sumatriptan |
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| What is first line therapy for treating a cluster headache? |
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| Calcium-channel blockers for long term, Steriods for acute attacks |
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| What type of medication should be used in prevention of cluster headaches? |
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| Trigeminal Ganglion Thermocoagulation |
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| What is the most frequently performed destructive procedure for cluster headaches? |
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