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Hypertensive Emergencies

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Hypertensive complications are the result of acute and rapid elevations in blood pressure. These emergent issues include hypertensive crisis, hypertensive urgency/emergency, aortic dissection, hypertensive encephalopathy, and flash pulmonary edema. They may develop from a number of different etiologies and manifest across a variety of different organ systems causing both a diagnostic and a management challenge for the treating emergency medicine physician. This chapter will delineate some basic hypertensive complications and review management strategies.

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  1. Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Aimee Wendelsdorf

  2. Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Brian T. Wessman

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    Joseph R. Shiber

  2. Resuscitation & Emergency Critical Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Scott D. Weingart

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Wendelsdorf, A., Wessman, B.T. (2020). Hypertensive Emergencies. In: Shiber, J., Weingart, S. (eds) Emergency Department Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28794-8_13

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