Course:
Clinical Strategies - Pain Series, College of Radiographers CPD Endorsed, Diseases and Conditions
Module:
Clinical Strategies - Headache
Module Description:
Audience: All medical professionals
Prerequisites: None
The aim of this tutorial by Ashley Davidoff, M.D. is to provide a comprehensive review on headache. After completion of this tutorial, the learner will understand the causes of headache, the characteristic clinical presentations, the general approach to management as well as the usual diagnostic algorithm, procedures and imaging studies that are performed. The course begins with a review of the applied anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of a brain.
Learning Objectives
* Discuss the cause of the headache
* Decribe the applied anatomy
* Explain the physiology and pathophysiology
* Discuss the characteristic clinical presentations of headache
* Recognize the usual diagnostic algorithm and procedures that are performed
* Explain the general approach to the management
Author:
Dr. Ashley Davidoff
About the author:
Ashley Davidoff, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Radiology, Co-Director of Abdominal Imaging, and Director of Radiologic Education at Caritas St Elizabeth's Medical Center, an affiliate of Tufts Medical School. Dr. Davidoff graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa with a degree in medicine, with subsequent Fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Fellow in Cardiac Pathology, Children's Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA; Fellow in Angiography and Interventional Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Residency in General Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor in Radiology, Ultrasound Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Davidoff is a member of the Radiological Society of North America since 1991, and is published in numerous peer review journals, including book chapters. He has an interest in art and medicine and currently has an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston.
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