Bates Physical Examination
HEENT
1. One of the most common
Headache
symp- toms in clinical
practice, with a life-time
prevalence on 30%.
2. Primary Headaches Migraine, tension, cluster, and chronic daily HA
3. Secondary Headaches Arise from underlying structural systemic or
infectious
causes such as meningitis or subarachnoid
hemor- rhage.
4. Three most important severity, chronologic pattern and associated
attributes of headache symp- toms.
5. Reaches maximal intensity over sev- Thunderclap Headaches
eral minutes, occurs in 70% of
pa- tients with subarachnoid
hemor- rhage and are often
preceded by a sentinel leak HA
from a vascular leak into the
subarachnoid space
6. If a HA is sudden onset and Subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis
severe. What should you
consider?
7. Where do unilateral HA occur? In migraines/tension in the temporal areas and
cluster
maybe retro-orbital.
8. Valsalva maneuvers and 9. Valsalva and lying down
lean- ing forward may may in- crease pain from ?
increase pain from .
1/
5
, Bates Physical Examination
HEENT
Acute sinusitis
Mass lesions due to changing intracranial
pressure.
10. True
2/
5
HEENT
1. One of the most common
Headache
symp- toms in clinical
practice, with a life-time
prevalence on 30%.
2. Primary Headaches Migraine, tension, cluster, and chronic daily HA
3. Secondary Headaches Arise from underlying structural systemic or
infectious
causes such as meningitis or subarachnoid
hemor- rhage.
4. Three most important severity, chronologic pattern and associated
attributes of headache symp- toms.
5. Reaches maximal intensity over sev- Thunderclap Headaches
eral minutes, occurs in 70% of
pa- tients with subarachnoid
hemor- rhage and are often
preceded by a sentinel leak HA
from a vascular leak into the
subarachnoid space
6. If a HA is sudden onset and Subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis
severe. What should you
consider?
7. Where do unilateral HA occur? In migraines/tension in the temporal areas and
cluster
maybe retro-orbital.
8. Valsalva maneuvers and 9. Valsalva and lying down
lean- ing forward may may in- crease pain from ?
increase pain from .
1/
5
, Bates Physical Examination
HEENT
Acute sinusitis
Mass lesions due to changing intracranial
pressure.
10. True
2/
5
