Tag: Alternative Headache Therapies

Haloperidol for Treatment of Headache in the Emergency Department

by Mark Ramzy posted July 13, 2020 No Comments

Background Information: Headache is a common chief complaint that emergency physicians encounter almost every day and sometimes multiple times in each shift. In fact, headache is the fifth leading cause of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED).1 Current first-line …

Neurology

Alternative Headache Therapies

by Salim Rezaie posted June 15, 2017 No Comments

Background: Presentations to the Emergency Department for acute headache are remarkably common, with more than 2 million visits each year in the United States (Goldstein 2006). Emergency clinicians are tasked with dual roles of excluding life-threatening pathology while rendering effective pain …

Neurology