Tag: headache
JC: TICH TICH BOOM? TXA in ICH. St Emlyn’s
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. Off the back of recent …
JC: Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Decision Rules & Overtesting Headaches
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 induction post about headaches that …
Let’s talk about subarachnoid haemorrhage
subarachnoid management and diagnosis in the emergency department. St.Emlyn’s controversies in the use of CT scanning lumbar puncture LP and medical therapy.
I Can’t Get You Out of my Head – Headache at St Emlyns
We’ve all had headaches, but not often severe enough to prompt us to seek help in an Emergency Department. Many patients presenting to the ED with a primary presenting of feature of headache will have …
JC: Milk for refractory migraines?
Every day is a school day in Virchester! When you thought you had heard everything about Propofol with recent media cover over the unfortunate event involving a pop star, a paper from Iran suggest that …
JC: Trends in CT/MRI for Atraumatic Headache in the US
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 to see how this could …