Pregnancy Headache Clinical Examination - OSCE Revision - Dr Gill
When it comes to headaches, there is perhaps no clinical consultation more frightening to the medical student or junior doctor than the pregnant lady with a headache!
When it comes to pregnancy headaches, you are not merely looking after your patient, the mother, but also your secondary patient of the unborn fetus
It is vital that we exclude dangerous pathologies such as meningitis, pre-eclampsia and raised intracranial pressure, whilst also helping to narrow down the cause of the pregnancy headache - often migraines, tension headache or cluster headaches
But it is also vital that we keep in mind the rare causes which can cause a headache in pregnancy; subarachnoid haemorrhage, CVT, vasoconstriction and ischaemic CVA
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00:00 - Introduction and Patient Identification
00:14 - Symptoms and Previous Treatments
07:18 - Physical Examination Overview
07:57 - Blood Pressure Check
09:26 - Eye Examination
10:40 - Neurological and Reflex Tests
12:01 - Sensory Examination
12:36 - Urine Sample Discussion
13:01 - Headache Diagnosis and Recommendations