Acute Severe Hypertension
Critical Matters
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Do You Know How Much to Lower Your Blood Pressure?
If we determine that the patient has evidence of acute organ damage as you mentioned earlier these are patients that require aggressive treatment with IV drugs likely benefit from an A line and definitely should be treated in monitor settings like an ICU. How do you know how much to lower the blood pressure? You're going to use pathophysiologic principles right, some lessons from the auto regulatory curves and what we've known from experiments in humans looking at this and make decisions about what is safe based on the auto regulatory curve.
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