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Prevalence, diagnostic and treatment of acute headaches in a pediatric emergency department: a 7 - year retrospective analysis

Prevalence, diagnostic and treatment of acute headaches in a pediatric emergency department: a 7 - year retrospective analysis

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00036917
Enrollment
1400
Registered
2025-05-16
Start date
2025-01-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

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

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
Lead Sponsor

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

MeasureTime 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

MeasureTime 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

sebastian.brenner@ukdd.de+4935145818309

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 25, 2026