Hypertensive Emergencies in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 539-551

  Adebayo, Omoyemi ^a   Rogers, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Hypertensive crisis; Hypertensive emergency

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLEVIDIPINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRILAT; ESMOLOL; FENOLDOPAM MESILATE; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; NICARDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENTOLAMINE; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AMERICAN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTION; BRAIN; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSPNEA; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY WARD; HEADACHE; HEART; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCY; HYPERTENSIVE NEPHROPATHY; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NAUSEA; ORGAN INJURY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT CARE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHLEBITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALP PRURITUS; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY EDEMA;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY EDEMA;

EID: 84937967263     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2015.04.005     Document Type: Review

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