Brainwaves

Dr. Pouya Khankhanian describes his experience with "worst headache of life." A harbinger of head pathology, thunderclap headache should be quickly and meticulously addressed in order to prevent life-threatening neurologic disease. BrainWaves podcasts and online content are intended for medical education only and should not be used to guide medical decision making in routine clinical practice. Any cases discussed in this episode are fictional and do not contain any patient health identifying information. The content in this episode was vetted and approved by Roderick Spears. REFERENCES 1. Schwedt TJ, Matharu MS and Dodick DW. Thunderclap headache. The Lancet Neurology. 2006;5:621-31. 2. Linn FH, Wijdicks EF, van der Graaf Y, Weerdesteyn-van Vliet FA, Bartelds AI and van Gijn J. Prospective study of sentinel headache in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Lancet. 1994;344:590-3. 3. Sames TA, Storrow AB, Finkelstein JA and Magoon MR. Sensitivity of new-generation computed tomography in subarachnoid hemorrhage.