A 2020 appraisal of intravenous haloperidol for acute benign headache. The review considers pain relief, adverse effects and patient selection, asking whether a placebo-controlled trial can tell us enough when the useful clinical comparison would be with usual headache treatment.
JC: Haloperidol for Headaches. St Emlyn’s Read More
TXA. Huh. Good god y’all. What is it good for? Absolutely everything. This appears to be the alternative hypothesis for the TICH-2 study 1, published last week in the Lancet.
JC: TICH TICH BOOM? TXA in ICH. St Emlyn’s Read More
Headache is a pretty common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department – so common, in fact, that it has two curriculum sections of its own (and we’ve already produced an
JC: Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Decision Rules & Overtesting Headaches Read More
subarachnoid management and diagnosis in the emergency department. St.Emlyn’s controversies in the use of CT scanning lumbar puncture LP and medical therapy.
Let’s talk about subarachnoid haemorrhage Read More
Headache in the Emergency Department – A real headache for Emergency Physicians – Podcast We’ve all had headaches, but not often severe enough to prompt us to seek help in
Headache in the Emergency Department Read More
Last Friday (30th November) we looked at the paper below in both the physical and virtual journal clubs of St Emlyn’s: It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination
JC: Trends in CT/MRI for Atraumatic Headache in the US Read More
