Meeting
Abstract Number: 360
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Hypertensive crisis is classified as either hypertensive emergency or hypertensive urgency, distinguished by presence or absence of end-organ damage, respectively. Guidelines recommend treating hypertensive emergency with intravenous (IV) antihypertensive medications for immediate blood pressure reduction. On the other hand, management of hypertensive urgency involves gradual reduction of blood pressure over hours to days using […]