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  • Headache
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Headache/
    Headache …Clinical Practice Guidelines : Headache The Royal … resources CPG feedback RCH   >   Health Professionals   >   Clinical Practice Guidelines   >   Headache …
  • Headache patterns
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    Headache patterns …Clinical Practice Guidelines : Headache patterns … Practice Guidelines   >   Headache patterns In this section Guidelines index CPG information Citing our …
  • Spider Bite - Big Black Spider
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Spider_Bite_-_Big_Black_Spider/
    , is not significantly venomous and causes minor symptoms such as bite-site pain, headache and nausea Whilst Sydney … Perioral tingling Headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain Salivation, piloerection, sweating …
  • Contraception
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Contraception/
    Rapid return to normal periods post-removal 20% have frequent or prolonged bleeding Headaches, acne … become lighter and shorter 20% amenorrhoeic at 1 year Hormonal side effects possible eg headaches, skin … liver disease Side effects not common, may include irregular menstrual bleeding, nausea, headaches …
  • Lumbar puncture
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Lumbar_puncture/
    sedation, local anaesthetic and analgesia) Post-dural puncture headache (uncommon, 5-15%) Transient …/adolescents to reduce the risk of headache, evidence is not convincing in younger children Age of child Weight … stylet (to reduce risk of headache), and remove needle and stylet together apply brief pressure …
  • Prolonged fever
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Prolonged_fever/
    site becomes an eschar (scab), headache, myalgia, lymphadenopathy, rash PCR Serology Sample for PCR … Headache, retro-orbital pain, myalgia, rash, haemorrhagic fever/shock PCR and NS1 antigen (days 0-9 …) Serology Japanese encephalitis Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV)  NSW, VIC, SA, QLD 5 to 15 days Headache …
  • Hypertension in children and adolescents
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hypertension_in_children_and_adolescents/
    Drug-induced Corticosteroids, OCP, stimulants History Headache/vomiting Blurred vision Change in mental state …, eg headache vomiting, vision changes and neurological symptoms (facial nerve palsy, lethargy …, seizures, coma) +/- target-end organ damage >180/120 associated with encephalopathy, eg headache vomiting …
  • Head injury
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Head_injury/
    of deterioration *Risk factors: Severe headache Persistent altered mental status/acting abnormally Abnormal … behaviour, including agitation, confusion and drowsiness Headache Nausea and vomiting Other injuries … History of loss of consciousness Post-traumatic seizure Severe headache Persistent vomiting Non-frontal …
  • Hyponatraemia
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Hyponatraemia/
    symptoms such as nausea and malaise Severe (<120 mmol/L): headache, obtundation and seizures may occur … Neurological status Red Flags Nausea and vomiting Irritability Headache Decreased conscious state Seizures …
  • Vomiting
    www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Vomiting/
    with families is helpful Early morning vomiting and headache may be due to raised ICP Bilious vomitus … illness Sepsis UTI Meningitis Neurological Headache Migraine Intracranial pathology ie raised ICP …