
#385 TIA/Stroke for the Hospitalist featuring Dr. Karima Benameur
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is Permissive Hypertension Really Helpful When You Have a Stroke?
Hypermissive hypertension is a fascinating Concept but it's the guidelines say that you Have to align 24 to 48 hours up to 48 hours of permissive hypertension When patients come in with an acute stroke and that's 48 hours after the onset of symptoms, right? So if patient comes in and they've been sitting at home Um, like many of my patients with three days of symptoms. They're past that hyperpermissive hypertension window But if they come in immediately permissive hypertension is actually very useful It's basically allowing the body to heal itself. And so um, it's useful and basically salvaging What we were calling what we were talking about earlier the panumbra.
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