Full Description
This is a clinically useful book for pediatricians and other primary care providers who take care of children to guide them in the best ways to take care of children and teenagers who have headaches.It provides a blend of the best available evidence based data with a ton of 'experience-based' information from a team of authors who take care of kids with headache all the time.The book includes a CD-Rom showing case studies and references. The video demonstrations show not only a broad spectrum of cases and types of headache, but show an efficient manner for extracting the necessary information.This is an exciting area with new indications for adolescents of drugs heretofore approved only for adults.
Contents
ForewordPreface Introduction1: Epidemiology and Classification of HeadacheRichard B. Lipton, Paul Winner2: Evaluation of HeadacheDonald Lewis, Steve Linder, A. David RothnerPRIMARY HEADACHES3: Migraine and Migraine Variants, Donald Lewis, Paul Winner, Bigal4: The 'Other' Primary Headache Syndromes Donald Lewis, Paul Winner5: Video demonstration of primary headaches and discussion (DVD) Donald Lewis, Eric Kossoff6: Genetics of Migraine/HeadacheAndrew Hershey7: Migraine Pathophysiology Peter J. Goadsby8: Chronic Daily HeadacheJack Gladstein, Ken Mack. Paul Winner9: Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias (TAC) and Cluster Headache in Children and AdolescentsLarry NewmanSECONDARY HEADACHES10: Secondary Headaches in Children and AdolescentsAndrew Hershey, Eric Pearlman, A. David Rothner11: Headache as a manifestation of systemic disease in childrenDonald Younkin12: Epilepsy and HeadacheEric Kossoff, Donald Lewis13: Post-traumatic Headache Paul Winner, Eric Pearlman, Bill McClintock, Stephen D. Silberstein14: Pharmacologic Treatment of HeadachePaul Winner, Steve L. Linder, Marcy Yonker,15: Psychologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Headache Scott Powers, Alvin E. Lake III, Frank Andrasik16: Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Childhood HeadacheTom Koch, Paul WinnerSPECIAL ISSUES17: Headache in the Pediatric Emergency Department/Inpatient Management Marielle Kabbouche, Faiqa Qureshi, Donald W. Lewis, Andrew Hershey18: Headache in Female Children and AdolescentsElizabeth Loder, Christine Lay19: Patient information and educational literatureIndexGlossary
