Best Practices in Primary Care 2023: On-Demand

This 12-hour on-demand CME activity (originally took place on April 20-22, 2023 in New Orleans, LA) examines various conditions often seen in everyday practice with the goal of learning new strategies for diagnosing and treating patients. This activity provides opportunities to get answers to your burning questions and learn ‘best practices’ tools and techniques to help you better treat your patients.

Approvals for Migraines

In the United States, it is reported that over 38 million people have been diagnosed with a migraine disease and some even believe that this number may be higher up to 50 million. On the other hand, some studies have also reported about 12 percent of adults in America have migraines and 4 million have chronic migraines.

Management of Migraine Headaches

When you start clinic this morning, you see your first patient is a new patient with a chief complaint of “headaches.” Upon entering the exam room, you see a young man in no apparent distress, scrolling through his phone. He stands up to greet you and introduces himself. Carlos is a 25-year-old man who describes himself as very healthy. He comes to the clinic today because he has been having frequent headaches, and they are interfering with his work.