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Headache

Common

• Migraine headache
• Tension headache
• Cluster headache

Killers

• Meningitis/encephalitis
• SAH / sentinel bleed
• Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) (subdura/epidural)
• Acute obstructive hydrocephalus
• Space occupying lesions
• CVA
• CO Poisoning
• Basilar artery dissection
• Preeclampsia
• Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (pregnancy/post-partum)
• Hypertensive Emergency
• Depression

Maimers

• Temporal Arteritis (>50yrs & ESR)
• Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)
• Acute Glaucoma
• Acute sinusitis

Others

• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• TMJ pain
• Post-Lumbar Puncture Headache/ low CSF
• Dehydration
• Analgesia abuse
• Eye, dental problem, or derm cause
• Cryptococcosis
• Febrile headache