Main Symptom headache or following ICD-10-diagnoses: G43.0, G43.1, G43.2, G43.3, G43.9, G44.0, G44.2, R51, J01.9, J32.4, J32.9, J06.9, Q28.29, Q28.88, G08, I67.6, G00.9, H70.9, G03.9, G04.9, G06.0, I61.9, I69.1, C71.9, D43.2, G91.9, G93.2, I64 R51
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: All emergency admissions to the pediatric emergency department of the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden with the main symptom acute headaches were retrospectively reviewed i
Sponsors
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin Universitätsklinikum Dresden
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
2 Years to 18 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: acute admission in the pediatric emergency department due to non-traumatic headaches
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: o Children with traumatic or post-traumatic headaches o Children with a neurosurgical disease or existing VP-shunt o Children under 2 years of age
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Recording the prevalence of acute emergency admissions due to the main symptom headaches in children and adolescents over a period of 7 years. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Prevalence of primary and secondary headaches, including individual diagnoses - When was further diagnostic initiated (Red Flag Symptoms)? - Where Red Flag Symptoms correlated to pathological findings in MRI scan? - For primary headaches: was a drug treatment initiated? What kind of follow-up was recommended to the patients (pediatric headache outpatient clinic? MRI Scan) - Was there a significant increase of headaches among children during the Covid-19 pandemic? | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactSebastian Brenner
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Universitätsklinikum Dresden
Outcome results
None listed