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Hypertensive Crisis - Emergency Management

Signs: headache, vomiting, visual changes, convulsion, coma, angina, pulmonary oedema, CVA, eclampsia.

Hypertensive Crisis

 

·        Signs: headache, vomiting, visual changes, convulsion, coma, angina, pulmonary oedema, CVA, eclampsia


·        Treatment: sublingual captopril. Labetalol, etc

 

·        Caution: vasodilators may increase ICP. May need iv fluids with vasodilators. Don‟t lower blood pressure too low too fast – cerebral autoregulation may be been reset to a higher blood pressure

 

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