Description
Chapter 14 of the CVD Masterclass focuses on the management of urgencies and emergencies in hypertension. It gives a brief introduction on hypertension and hypertensive crisis (hypertensive urgency and hypertensive emergency), causes of hypertensive crisis, its symptoms, physical examination, Keith- Wagener- Barker classification, and recommended examination by ISH 2020/ ESH 2018. It further explains the evaluation of hypertension urgency, PASCAR's commentary, differences in management of urgency and emergency hypertension, diagnosis and management of hypertensive crisis, the drug types and doses for hypertensive urgency and emergency, prognosis and follow- up.