Adult Emergency Medicine

Addison's Disease Anterior pituitary - ACTH, GH, FSH, LH, TSH, PRL Posterior pituitary- ADH, oxytocin Presentat...

In a lot of places I work, headaches either go home for GP review, or get admitted as a ?SAH. And if they're a possible SAHs, they get a...

Headache is a massive subject to try and cover. One website nicely splits them into three main groups - so I'll go over headache in...

Benign Inter-cranial Hypertension This is caused by raised CSF pressure, often in middle aged, obese females. It is occasional associated w...

Normal Patho-physiology - CSF produced at 0.35 ml/min (20 ml/hour or 500 ml/24 hours) - Recycled over three times each day - Capacity of ...

Glaucoma is listed in the headache syllabus, but no-where else. It's implied in the red eye syllabus. Epidemiology - Affects 2% of ov...

SAH - the most feared cause of headache. Syncope + headache = think SAH. Anatomy  Most SAHs occur in the circle of Willis - as this is wh...

Temporal arteritis is a rare cause of a headache but one that I always worry about missing. I remember as an FY2 in GP land, my tutor runnin...

Pathophysiology I think this picture from the amazing Calgary guide summarises everything very well. Basically, something st...

Re @embasic The proper dose of opioids for acute headache is 0.0 mg/kg #foamed — Mike Abernethy (@FLTDOC1) April 3, 2014 Tension Head...

Cluster headaches are severe unilateral headaches. They used to be called migranous neuralgia. They are short lasting and are accompanied by...