Question

A 28-year-old female presents with a “severe headache” for the past 9 hours. She states the pain is over the left temporal area and is “throbbing” in nature. These symptoms have occurred before but not as bad.

• What are some clinical assessment tools or techniques that you could use to help diagnose this patient’s condition?
• In order of importance, describe three (3) questions that you would like to ask this patient and give a brief explanation of why?

Answer 1

1)

Which part of the head are you having pain

2) Rate the pain out of 10

3)since when this started

4) have you faced any accident recently

This is to find whether any intracranial bleeding is occurring

5) Are you having faintness or dizziness

This is to find if the volume of brain contents is increasing that is tumor,then it can cause reduce blood supply to brain

6) Are you a person who use caffine foods constantly

To find if it is due to caffine withdrawal

,7) any recent fever or Infection

To find if it is due to sinus inflamation