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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
O062. Post ambulatory surgery headache in patients affected from primary headaches: a comparison with the general population
Authors:
Giovanni F Manfredi, Francesco De Cesaris, Eugenia Tomas Roldan
Published in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Primary headaches, such as tension-type headache and migraine, are very common. Migraine is one of the most weakening diseases, especially in women[
1]. Ambulatory surgery consists in performing some surgical procedures, in selected patients, with discharge from the hospital the same working day[
2]. After discharge, some complications may occur at home, above all, pain, nausea, vomiting and headache. We detected the predominance of headache at home in women affected from primary headaches compared to the general population, and its correlation with both anesthesia, the medications usually taken for headache and the drugs given during the intraoperative period. …