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Hypertensive Crisis with Dr. Lorrel Brown

UofL Internal Medicine Lecture Series

2 recommenders · recommended in 1 months, 2018

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64K views · 9 years ago · lecture · Step 2 CK

Internal medicine lecture on hypertensive crisis.

CardiovascularInternal medicine review

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  • @Corsair990 · 2018-08 · in “[step 2] Drugs used for HTN emergency and how to differentiate between them?”

    Thank you! If you have a generic HTN emergency pt with no aforementioned contraindications, is there a first line order in the listed drugs? Or should all of them be acceptable answers? edit: if anyone's interested, the above youtube's video starts talking about Rx ▶ here

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  • @IUseADell · 2018-08 · in “[step 2] Drugs used for HTN emergency and how to differentiate between them?”

    …Hydralazine - can cause reflex tachycardia Nitroglycerin - watch out for tachyphylaxis and can cause headache Nitroprusside - very quick onset, can cause cyanide toxicity, especially in people with renal failure Nicardipine - as with labetolol, not good if they are in decompensated heart failure Edit: probably more than what you need for step 2, but this is a really good video about hypertensive crisis: ▶ link

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