> In Canada there seems to be a culture of treating migraine suffers in
> the emergency dept (often GP run) with parenteral therapy - often this
> is injections of opiates/oids but sometimes it is just IV fluids and IV
> metoclopromide
> (there also seems to be much use of cocodamol 30/500 (Tylenol 3) here -
> again often prescribed for 'migraine')
Yes, Jel, I was surprised by this as well.
Interestingly, they did not seem to use sumatriptan (certainly the staff
where I was had not heard of it). I didn't find out if this was available
in Canada or not.
Just as well they don't have access to diamorphine, really.
Also, they seem keen to give people Ibuprofen 600mg tabs (then they wonder
why everyone is taking over the counter H2 blockers!).
I'll be interested to hear what the A+E people here do.
Robbie Coull
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