Expect to Dispense Unexpected Meds for Some Patients With Headache

March 2019

You may be surprised by some of the meds ordered for severe headache in hospitalized patients.

Patients with a headache may be admitted when they don't respond to high doses or combos of common headache meds...such as an NSAID (ketorolac, etc) or a triptan (sumatriptan, etc).

In these cases, clinicians will try meds you might not expect.

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