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Hypertensive Emergency and Urgency: Differentiation and Treatment

…abrupt deterioration in renal function. By contrast, hypertensive urgency describes severe hypertension without clinical evidence of acute, ongoing target organ damage. Although BP reduction is…

NSTEMI: Risk Stratification and Timing of the Invasive Strategy

…description of the presenting symptoms of NSTEMI. It does identify several clinical manifestations that indicate particularly high risk and should influence the urgency of management…

Foreign body in the ear and nose

…than a routine referral being made. Two or more magnets constitute the same kind of urgency by a different mechanism. They attract one another through…

Blood pressure

Referensvärden A diagnosis of hypertension is not made on a single reading. It requires repeated measurements on at least two occasions, and preferably confirmation by…

Ventricular Tachycardia

…of Ventricular Tachycardia The classification of VT is fundamentally based on its duration, morphology, and hemodynamic consequences, which collectively dictate the urgency and modality of…

Atrial Fibrillation in the Critically Ill Patient

…pulmonary oedema, or evidence of coronary ischaemia. These findings determine the urgency and type of intervention. The assessment should also clarify: Whether AF is pre…

Hypertensive crisis: quick reference for acute blood pressure lowering

…hypertension and a rightward shifted autoregulation [1,3]. The term hypertensive urgency is best avoided. It implies that an asymptomatic rise in blood pressure must…

Complete Versus Culprit-Only Revascularization in Acute Coronary Syndrome

…and its urgency. The presence or absence of haemodynamic instability or cardiogenic shock. The likelihood of an identifiable IRA. The extent and complexity of coexisting…

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