What is a hypertensive emergency

What is a hypertensive emergency
Hypertension is acute hypertensive patients, blood pressure in a short period of time (a few hours or days) was significantly higher in Jizhou, accompanied by heart, brain, kidney, retina and other important target organ dysfunction as a serious life-threatening clinical comprehensive Levy, seen in patients with hypertension and some secondary hypertension, the incidence rate of hypertension in patients with 5 per cent. Hypertension often caused acute target organ function serious obstacles, even failure. Therefore, the urgent emergency treatment of hypertension, is to take swift and effective measures, in a few minutes to one hour to safe blood pressure within the scope of the failure of organ function improved or restored. If not timely rescue, poor prognosis. Common hypertensive emergency are:

1. Hypertensive encephalopathy occurred in the original cerebral arteriosclerosis patients, showing high blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure超过16.0 kPa (120mmHg), headache, vomiting, irritability, bradycardia, blurred vision, such as drunken appearance .

2. Hypertensive crisis due to tension, trauma, fatigue, cold, and so induced, there irritability, sweating, palpitations, hand-foot-shaking, looking pale and abnormal Dengzheng consciousness, may have angina, congestive heart failure.

3. Aggressive type of malignant hypertension more common in young people, often sudden headache, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations, shortness of breath and other symptoms. Illness developed rapidly, with easy heart, brain and kidney dysfunction.

4. Stubbornly intractable hypertension also known as hypertension, patients often routine use of antihypertensive drugs did not work, blood pressure continued to increase, easily with heart, brain and kidney damage.

5. Pregnancy-induced hypertension in pregnancy hypertension-prone pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, endangering lives of mother and son.

6. Aortic dissection chest pain in patients with hypertension, in addition to angina, myocardial infarction, should consider this disease. Suffering from hypertension patients with aortic dissection, in more common in older men, a sudden onset of severe pain in the chest or the Department of Shoulder mainly along the spine can also go to the abdomen, radiation to the neck and upper limbs, looking pale, Lin Li sweat, and even shock, and sudden death.

7. Pheochromocytoma crisis as part of adrenal tumors are a result of hypertension, more common in young people, paroxysmal or persistent high blood pressure, with onset of headache, sweating, palpitations, looking pale and shivering, pupil Casual, blurred vision and other symptoms. For the general spirit of stimulation, strenuous exercise, such as changes in body position on incentives.

When suffering from the acute high blood pressure, the importance of timely treatment to the hospital.