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#390 Resistant Hypertension

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Wean Off Beta Blockers

If patients don't have an indication for beta blocker and you get one of those, we see these sometimes in primary care. One thing I will say is if they've been on it for a long time and they're on a high dose, you actually have to taper it off much like flonidine because you can end up with a rebound tachycardia. We had trouble weaning it off because they were getting palpitations and anxiety trying to lean it off. So let's give you another slight variation to this case. Would you go up to the full dose before you tried to add the, the diuretic or would you, or, yeah, like what step

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