2008年10月21日 星期二

在急診看頭痛病人時...

Source: Practical Neurology 2008;8:335-343
  • Headache affects 95% of people in their lifetime
  • Headache affects 75% of people in any one year
  • One in 10 people have migraine
  • One in 30 people have headache more often than not, for 6 months or more
  • At least 90% of patients seen in a neurology outpatient clinic with headache will have migraine, tension type headache, or a chronic daily headache syndrome
  • Sinister causes of headache are rare, perhaps 0.1% of all headaches in primary care
切記:在急診看頭痛病人時,不能用好發率來思考,要反過來,應該優先排除那 0.1% 的 sinister causes,尤其是致命的 SAH!

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