Occipital Nerve Blocks in the Emergency Department for Initial Medication-Refractory Acute Occipital Migraines
Migraines are consistently among the top 20 primary coded diagnoses in emergency departments, constituting 4.5% of all chief complaints. In a significant subset of these, pain arises from the occipital region innervated by the greater (GON) and lesser occipital nerve. In this case series, we present...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18q1z7rp |