Meeting
Abstract Number: A22
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Hypertension occurs in up to 75% of hospitalized patients. However, less than 1% have “hypertensive emergency,” defined as severely elevated blood pressure (BP) with end-organ injury. Current guidelines support emergent treatment of hypertensive emergency but recommend against immediate reduction of severely elevated BP in patients without end-organ injury (i.e., asymptomatic hypertension). Recent literature suggests […]