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ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2008

Acute migraine in the Emergency Department: extending European principles of management.

Paolo Martelletti, Ivano Farinelli, Timothy J Steiner, Working Group for Specialist Education, WHO's Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide (Lifting The Burden)

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Review in Internal and emergency medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Opioids can be useful in the treatment of headache.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2013
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  5. Future drugs for migraine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2009
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Paolo MartellettiDepartment of Medical Sciences, Internal Medicine, Regional Referral Headache Centre, 2nd School of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy. paolo.martelletti@uniroma1.it
Ivano Farinelli
Timothy J Steiner
Working Group for Specialist Education, WHO's Global Campaign to Reduce the Burden of Headache Worldwide (Lifting The Burden)
Sapienza University of Rome · ITImperial College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) placed migraine 19th among all causes of disability (12th in women) measured in years of healthy life lost to disability (YLD). The importance of headache disorders, particularly of the primary forms, is established by their distribution worldwide, their duration (the majority being life-long conditions) and their imposition of both disability and life-style restrictions among large numbers of people. For these reasons, headache disorders should represent a public-health priority. In the Emergency Department (ED), as elsewhere, migraine is often under-diagnosed-and under-treated when it is diagnosed. The result is likely to be failure of treatment. Particular attention to diagnosis is needed in ED patients with acute headache, since there is a higher probability of secondary headache due to underlying pathologies. According to European principles of management, acute migraine treatment generally is stepwise. Of the two main steps, the first relies on symptomatic medication, preferably NSAIDs with or without antiemetics. The second step uses specific therapies, usually triptans. Modifications to routine practice are appropriate in the ED. Parenteral administration of symptomatic therapies is a preferred first choice, whilst immediate resort to triptans may be appropriate, and achieve better outcomes, in patients with severe headache and diagnostic confirmation of migraine.

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Acute DiseaseAnalgesicsAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalEmergency Service, HospitalEuropeGlobal HealthHumansMigraine DisordersTryptaminesAnalgesicsAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalTryptamines

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PMID18785015
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