In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the June 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Hypertensive Emergencies: Guidelines and Best Practice Recommendations
- Epidemiology
- Etiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Prehospital care
- History and physical
- Diagnostics
- Treatment
- Acute decompensated heart failure
- Acute ischemic stroke
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Aortic dissection
- Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
- Controversies
- Arterial line placement
- Beta blockers and cocaine
- Risk management caveats
- Summary
Sam Ashoo, MD, FACEP, is board certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics. He serves as EB Medicine’s editor-in-chief of interactive clinical pathways and FOAMEd blog, and host of EB Medicine’s EMplify podcast. Follow him below for more…
