Level 3: Headache – Chief Complaint: Expert Panel DDX

How does your differential compare with the experts?

What questions will comprise your initial history?

Experts’ DDX:

  1. Tension headache
  2. Migraine
  3. Intracranial bleed
    1. Subdural
    2. Subarachnoid
    3. Arteriovenous malformation and bleed
  4. Meningitis
  5. Encephalitis
  6. Acute glaucoma
  7. Trauma
  8. Hypoxia
  9. Hypercapnia
  10. Hyperglycemia
  11. Substance use
  12. Substance withdrawal
  13. Temporal arteritis
  14. Arterial hypertension
  15. Venous thrombosis
  16. Pseudotumor cerebri
  17. Benign intracranial hypertension
  18. Mass effect
    1. Tumor
    2. Abscess
  19. Sinusitis
  20. Cancer in hypothalamus