Beware the patient with a headache in the accident and emergency department.
Open Access
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Emergency Medicine Journal
- Vol. 6 (1) , 7-12
- https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.6.1.7
Abstract
We have reviewed the 130 patients presenting to an accident and emergency (A & E) department with a headache, followed up for 2 years. These are infrequent attenders but we have found that there is a high incidence of serious neurological pathology (16%) in this group of patients. We suggest that patients presenting to the A & E department with headache should be thoroughly examined and investigated and in the absence of a definite benign diagnosis should at least be admitted for a period of observation.Keywords
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