Evaluating and managing severe headache in the emergency department

References

• Evans RW, Friedman BW. Headache in the emergency department. Headache. 2011;51(8):1276–1278.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldstein J, Camargo C, Pelletier A, et al. Headache in United States emergency departments. Cephalalgia. 2006;26(6):684–690.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCaig LF, Nawar EW. National hospital ambulatory medical care survey: 2004 emergency depart- ment summary. Adv Data. 2006;372:1–29.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Headache classification committee of the International Headache Society (IHS). The international classification of headache disorders, 3rd edition. Cephalalgia. 2018;38(1):1–211.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cerbo R, Villani V, Bruti G, et al. Primary headache in emergency department: prevalence, clinical features and therapeutical approach. J Headache Pain. 2005;6(4):287–289.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Locker TE, Thompson C, Rylance J, et al. The utility of clinical features in patients presenting with nontraumatic headache: an investigation of adult patients attending an emergency department. Headache. 2006;46(6):954–961.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Negro A, Spuntarelli V, Sciattella P, et al. Rapid referral for headache management from emergency department to headache centre: four years data. J Headache Pain. 2020;21(1):25.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pellesi L, Benemei S, Favoni V, et al. Quality indicators in headache care: an implementation study in six Italian specialist-care centres. J Headache Pain. 2017;18(1):55.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nye BL, Ward TN. Clinic and emergency room evaluation and testing of headache. Headache. 2015;55(9):1301–1308.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blumenthal HJ, Weisz MA, Kelly KM, et al. Treatment of primary headache in the emergency department. Headache. 2003;43(10):1026–1031.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gupta MX, Silberstein SD, Young WB, et al. Less is not more: underutilization of headache medications in a university hospital emergency department. Headache. 2007;47(8):1125–1133.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodick DW. Clinical clues and clinical rules: primary vs secondary headache. Adv Stud Med. 2003;3:S550–S555.
   Google Scholar
• Benzon HT, Iqbal M, Tallman MS, et al. Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a patient with postdural puncture headache. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2003;2(1):64–67.
   Google Scholar
• Longoni M, Agostoni EC. Headache in neurological emergency. Neurol Sci. 2020;41(S2):409–416.
   Google Scholar
• Lateef TM, Cui L, Nakamura E, et al. Accuracy of family history reports of migraine in a community-based family study of migraine. Headache. 2015;55(3):407–412.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Giamberardino MA, Affaitati G, Costantini R, et al. Acute headache management in emergency department. A narrative review. Int Emerg Med. 2020;15(1):109–117.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Giamberardino MA, Tafuri E, Savini A, et al. Contribution of myofascial trigger points to migraine symptoms. J Pain. 2007;8(11):869–878.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Giamberardino MA, Affaitati G, Fabrizio A, et al. Myofascial pain syndromes and their evaluation. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2011;25(2):185–198.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ramirez-Lassepas M, Espinosa CE, Cicero JJ, et al. Predictors of intracranial pathologic findings in patients who seek emergency care because of headache. Arch Neurol. 1997;54:1506.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Detsky ME, McDonald DR, Baerlocher MO, et al. Does this patient with headache have a migraine or need neuroimaging? JAMA. 2006;296(10):1274.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Colang JE, Killion JB, Vano E. Patient dose from CT: a literature review. Radiol Technol. 2007;79:17–26.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Miyazawa A, Maeno T, Shaku F, et al. Inappropriate use of the emergency department for nonurgent conditions: patient characteristics and associated factors at a Japanese hospital. J Gen Fam Med. 2019;20(4):146–153.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang X, You JJ. Head CT for nontrauma patients in the emergency department: clinical predictors of abnormal findings. Radiology. 2013;26(3):783–790.
   Google Scholar
• Gilbert JW, Johnson KM, Larkin GL, et al. Atraumatic headache in US emergency departments: recent trends in CT/MRI utilization and factors associated with severe intracranial pathology. Emerg Med J. 2012;29(7):576–581.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2010. National ambulatory medical care survey: 2010 summary tables [cited 2020 Dec 17].  Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/namcs_summary/2010_namcs_web_tables.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Patterson BW, Pang PS, AlKhawam L, et al. The association between use of brain CT for atraumatic headache and 30-day emergency department revisitation. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2016;207(6):W117–W124.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Howard L, Wessely S, Leese M, et al. Are investigations anxiolytic or anxiogenic? A randomised controlled trial of neuroimaging to provide reassurance in chronic daily headache. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(11):1558–1564.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller DG, Vakkalanka P, Moubarek ML, et al. Reduced computed tomography use in the emergency department evaluation of headache was not followed by increased death or missed diagnosis. West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(2):319–326.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mitsikostas DD, Ashina M, Craven A, et al. European headache federation consensus on technical investigation for primary headache disorders. J Headache Pain. 2015;17(1):5.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Olesen J, Friberg L, Olsen TS, et al. Ischaemia-induced (symptomatic) migraine attacks may be more frequent than migraine-induced ischaemic insults. Brain. 1993;116(1):187–202.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Shams PN, Plant GT. Migraine-like visual aura due to focal cerebral lesions: case series and review. Surv Ophthalmol. 2011;56(2):135–161.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evans RWRT, Mechtler LL. Chapter 5: neuroimaging and other diagnostic testing in headache. In: Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Dodick DW, editors. Wolff ’s headache and other head pain. 8th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007:27–49.
   Google Scholar
• Valade D, Lucas C, Calvel L, et al. Migraine diagnosis and management in general emergency departments in France. Cephalalgia. 2011;31(4):471–480.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mayele MOF, Bertrand X. Subarachnoid hemorrhage resulting from a ruptured aneurysm: management in an emergency department. Rev Med Liege. 2018;73:344–350.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Filler L, Akhter M, Nimlos P. Evaluation and management of the emergency department headache. Semin Neurol. 2019;39(1):20–26.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malhotra A, Wu X, Gandhi D, et al. The patient with thunderclap headache. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2018;28(3):335–351.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marcolini E, Hine J. Approach to the diagnosis and management of subarachnoid hemorrhage. West J Emerg Med. 2019;20(2):203–211.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Steffens S, Tucker P, Evans DD. Acute headache in the emergency department: is lumbar puncture still necessary to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage? Adv Emerg Nurs J. 2018;40(2):78–86.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Sivilotti ML, et al. Clinical decision rules to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage for acute headache. JAMA. 2013;310(12):1248–1255.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Probst MA, Hoffman JR. Computed tomography angiography of the head is a reasonable next test after a negative noncontrast head computed tomography result in the emergency department evaluation of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;67(6):773–774.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim KJ, Cho JH, Moon JB, et al. What factors determine the need for lumbar puncture in patients with fever and headache? Singapore Med J. 2017;58(10):618–622.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dorsett M, Liang SY. Diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system infections in the emergency department. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2016;34(4):917–942.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Comelli I, Lippi G, Campana V, et al. Clinical presentation and epidemiology of brain tumors firstly diagnosed in adults in the emergency department: a 10-year, single center retrospective study. Ann Transl Med. 2017;5(13):269.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Masuhr F, Mehraein S, Einhäupl K. Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis. J Neurol. 2004;251(1):11–23.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lipton RB, Bigal ME, Diamond M, et al. Migraine prevalence, disease burden, and the need for preventive therapy. Neurology. 2007;68(5):343–349.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hllingim RB, King CD, Ribeiro-Dasilva MC, et al. Sex, gender, and pain: a review of recent clinical and experimental findings. J Pain. 2009;10(5):447–485.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woldeamanuel YW, Cowan RP. Migraine affects 1 in 10 people worldwide featuring recent rise: a systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based studies involving 6 million participants. J Neurol Sci. 2017;372:307–315.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stovner LJ, Andree C. Prevalence of headache in Europe: a review for the Eurolight project. J Headache Pain. 2010;11(4):289–299.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• GBD. Disease and injury incidence and prevalence collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2016. Lancet. 2017;390:1211–1259.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Friedman BW, Hochberg ML, Esses D, et al. Applying the International classification of headache disorders to the emergency department: an assessment of reproducibility and the frequency with which a unique diagnosis can be assigned to every acute headache presentation. Ann Emerg Med. 2007;49(4):409–419.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martelletti P, Schwedt TJ, Lanteri-Minet M, et al. My migraine voice survey: a global study of disease burden among individuals with migraine for whom preventive treatments have failed. J Headache Pain. 2018;19(1):115.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• 1Lucado J, Paez K, Elixhauser A. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs. Headaches in U.S. Hospitals and emergency departments, 2008: statistical brief #111. Rockville: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Friedman BW, Serrano D, Reed M, et al. Use of the emergency department for severe headache. A population-based study. Headache. 2009;49(1):21–30.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Friedman BW, West J, Vinson DR, et al. Current management of migraine in US emergency departments: an analysis of the national hospital ambulatory medical care survey. Cephalalgia. 2015;35(4):301–309.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vinson DR, Hurtado TR, Vandenberg JT, et al. Variations among emergency departments in the treatment of benign headache. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41(1):90–97.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Orr SL, Aubeé M, Becker WJ, et al. Canadian headache society systematic review and recommendations on the treatment of migraine pain in emergency settings. Cephalalgia. 2015;35(3):271–284.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Orr SL, Friedman BW, Christie S, et al. Management of adults with acute migraine in the emergency department: the American headache society evidence assessment of parenteral pharmacotherapies. Headache. 2016;56(6):911–940.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Royl G, Ploner CJ, Möckel M, et al. Neurological chief complaints in an emergency room. Nervenarzt. 2010;81(10):1226–1230.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doretti A, Shestaritc I, Ungaro D, et al. School of Advanced Studies of the European Headache Federation (EHF-SAS). Headaches in the emergency department - a survey of patients’ characteristics, facts and needs. J Headache Pain. 2019;20(1):100.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sempere-Selva T, Peiroé S, Sendra-Pina P, et al. Inappropriate use of an accident and emergency department: magnitude, associated factors, and reasons–an approach with explicit criteria. Ann Emerg Med. 2001;37(6):568–579.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fiesseler FW, Kec R, Mandell M, et al. Do ED patients with migraine headaches meet internation- ally accepted criteria? Am J Emerg Med. 2002;20(7):618–623.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lipton RB, Serrano D, Buse DW, et al. Improving the detection of chronic migraine: development and validation of identify chronic migraine (ID-CM). Cephalalgia. 2016;36(3):203–215.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sacco S, Benemei S, Cevoli S, et al. Development and validation of the ID-EC - the ITALIAN version of the identify chronic migraine. J Headache Pain. 2019;20(1):15.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Maizels M. Health resource utilization of the emergency department headache “repeater”. Headache. 2002;42(8):747–753.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Negro A, Sciattella P, Rossi D, et al. Cost of chronic and episodic migraine patients in continuous treatment for two years in a tertiary level headache Centre. J Headache Pain. 2019;20(1):120.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Silberstein SD, Winner PK, Chmiel JJ. Migraine preventive medication reduces resource utilization. Headache. 2003;43:171–178.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Laéinez MJ. The effect of migraine prophylaxis on migraine-related resource use and productivity. CNS Drugs. 2009;23(9):727–738.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar