Emergencies: Hypertensive Crisis — Emergency Medicine

Emergency Room · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Abordaje clínico, fisiopatológico y farmacológico avanzado de las emergencias y urgencias hipertensivas. Análisis de la disfunción microvascular, autorregulación de flujo de órganos diana y consensos internacionales.

What it covers

1. Hypertensive Crisis
2. Definition, Concepts and Epidemiology
3. · The False Crisis or Pseudo-Hypertensive Crisis
4. · Epidemiology and Predisposing Factors
5. · Keith-Wagener-Barker Retinal Classification
6. Pathophysiology: The Self-Regulatory Threshold
7. · The Theory of Flow Self-Regulation
8. · The Humoral and Microvascular Cascade
9. Initial Evaluation and Risk Classification
10. · Technical BP Measurement Protocol in Emergencies
11. · Anamnesis Directed to the Target Organ
12. · Critical Laboratory and Cabinet Exams
13. Target Organ Damage: Brain
14. · Hypertensive Encephalopathy and PRES Syndrome
15. · Approach to Acute Ischemic Stroke
16. · Acute Hemorrhagic Stroke: Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
17. Target Organ Damage: Cardiovascular
18. · Acute Aortic Dissection
19. · Acute Cardiopulmonary Lung Edema (SCAPE)
20. · Acute Coronary Syndrome (SCA)
21. Target Organ Damage: Renal and Gestational
22. · Malignant Hypertensive Nephropathy
23. · Preeclampsia, Eclampsia and HELLP
24. Other Special Hypertensive Emergencies
25. · Pheochromocytoma Crisis
26. · The Golden Rule in Hyperadrenergic Crisis
27. · Acute Sympathomimetic Intoxication Crisis
28. Emergency Intravenous Pharmacology
29. Specific Management of Hypertensive Emergency
30. Management of Hypertensive Emergency
31. · Hypertensive Emergency Should Not Become an Iatrogenic Emergency
32. · Oral Pharmacotherapy of Choice in Emergencies
33. Hypertensive Withdrawal and Rebound Syndromes
34. · Clonidine Withdrawal Syndrome
35. · Management of Rebound Hypertension
36. The Microvascular Spectrum: Hypertensive TMA
37. · Definition of Hypertensive Thrombotic Microangiopathy
38. · Differential Diagnosis of the MAT Spectrum
39. Post-Crisis Monitoring, Tracking and Forecasting
40. · Transition Protocol from Intravenous to Oral Treatment
41. · The Critical Role of ABPM (Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring)
42. · Medium and Long Term Forecast
43. Clinical Guidelines, Decision Algorithms and Consensus
44. · Comparison of International Guides (ESH 2024 vs ACC/AHA 2017)
45. · Quick Decision Tree for the Emergency Doctor