Talk:List of medical emergencies

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[edit] Cluster Headaches?

While cluster headaches are definitely painful and would benefit from analgesia, they are in not life-threatening like the other items on the list. In fact, patients calling 911 for a cluster headache would get a 2-Alpha non-emergency (no lights and sirens) response. Just wanted to see what people thought about its inclusion in this list. Leuko 05:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Not emergency - Indeed whilst very distressing and so an urgent problem, not "emergency" as generally understood to mean imminantly life-threatening. If cardiac arrest or status asthmaticus cases also simultaneously present to a doctor/casualty(ER), then the patient with Cluster Headache will just have to wait (likely the specific episode will have settled by time anyone gets round to seeing them in this senario). David Ruben Talk 12:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Support removal. Bl**dy annoying, but not a medical emergency in the same league as exsanguination and cerebral oedema. JFW | T@lk 19:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I've removed cluster headaches from the list since no one seems to object. Leuko 17:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)