Learning Objectives

• Describe the clinical features (history, examination and investigations) and initial management of 5 important conditions causing headache
• Define stroke and list differential diagnoses for stroke
• Describe the clinical and pathophysiological differences between ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke and transient ischemic attack
• Describe the vascular supply of the brain
• Describe the clinical signs associated with impaired flow through 4 key cerebral vessels
• Describe the 4 types of stroke syndromes of the Oxford classification
• Describe the risk stratification of TIAs using the ABCD2 score
• Describe the management of stroke in the emergency department
• Describe key principles in history and examination of a patient with a seizure
• Describe and demonstrate the first aid management of seizures
• List differentials for the causes of altered LOC and seizures

Headache

• what are the 2 types of headaches?

Stroke & Transient Ischemic Attack

• what is a stroke?
• what differentials should you consider?
• what are the 2 types of stroke?
• what is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?