Thank you..I was really worried about my fathers high blood pressure readings over 180 but no signs of pain and damage..now its been clear to me

Recently in hospital with bp at 246/90. I felt great, ultrasound showed no kidney damage.

My BP goes up 30 points every time I go into a DR's office. Very informative video. Thank You!

Excellent video that explain what is actually going on particularly for those who have a concern about urgent high blood pressure to alleviate the stress they feel about having high blood pressure that has peaked as in resistant hypertension. When it won't come down, and you are freaking out about having a stroke. It can help you settle down until the BP can be brought under management actually making you less hypertensive.

concerned as I'm having readings at 160/100 and I'm 20 years old. I'm pretty healthy in most regards, but I do have a very high stress job, very high stress, and usually working at my computer 15 hrs a day, anxiety, not much exercise. But besides this I have a clean lifestyle. not exactly 180/120, but it's usually accompanied by tachycardia with PVCs, very slight-mild disorientation, and very types of chest pain. for instance, that was my reading earlier today. was just sitting at my desk working, typing on a keyboard, that's it. BP started rising (it was already elevated) and the effects hit me, I felt terrible. It felt like if I turned my head just 25' degrees, that my heart would tear in half or explode. it's like if you have a muscle cramp and you know that one place NOT to "hit" otherwise it'll cause excruciating pain - it was like this. Not sure what to do. Already been to ER many other times before I knew what PVCs/palpitations were and I was worried, wasted over like 75k now going to ERs for this stuff.

Excellent lecture , highly yield information for a better medical practice when dealing with high blood pressure patients in the ER mostly referred by another doctor. Warm regards from Perú

A doctor sent me to the er just because my blood pressure was 200/100. I told her that I was not having chest pain, sob, difficulty talking. I wasted the doctor,s, nurse time. The doctor at the clinic panic.

huge thanks.you made it so simple n clear about diff in HE n HU

Great lecture!!! I work in the ER and urgent care and you're exactly correct!

My bp is always high and I can feel it go up and I start to have panic attacks

I get those super high numbers whenever I lie down in a Dentist's Chair ... they do my pressure and say they will be back in a few ... my cue to start breathing, after a couple minutes of relaxation and deep breathing my pressures are normal and we get on with the pain and suffering.

Thank you. This really helped me understand the confusion in regards to my treatment. I had read in some health charts that 180/120 was a go to the ER immediately number, full stop. I occasionally get numbers in that range (just the top) during high anxiety (which is now centered around my BP). I could for the life of me understand why the ER clinician and my primary care doctor just sent me home with BP medicine and told me to focus on anxiety. I thought that if I’m hitting these numbers throughout the day, then I must be a walking powder keg. I thought the traffic example was particularly helpful to that end. But it looks like they all did the right thing.

Thanks to you ...you make the topic so simple to understand 😊

Also, it is very VERY easy to screw up a blood pressure test. Things such as this can make your blood pressure go up Stress Nicotine Caffeine Lack of sleep Positioning Incorrect cuff placement/fitting Salt And so much more

Regarding the suggested diagnostic testing @ 6:43. Other than an EKG and urine dipstick, I wouldn't have access to any of these to assess whether or not there is evidence of end organ damage if I'm in a stand alone urgent care/primary care office. Sure I can send them out, but that doesn't help me in the management of the BP in this acute setting. Do you assume they are without end organ damage if they are asymptomatic and have benign physical exam? Otherwise you'd have to send them to the ED just to order these labs/imaging studies, which is the opposite the title of this video.

A Hypertensive Crisis Is 180/110 Not 180/120 They Just Raised The Diastolic For No Reason From 110 To 120 Other Countries Classify Them Until 110 mmHg For Diastolic 180 Systolic

Been to er with hypertensive emergency three times. They never once checked my kidneys. Gp sent me for tests and its renal hypertension due to renal artery stenosis. Right now 225/142 p110. On max dose meds x3.

Great video, very informative, thank you!

Woke up today. BP 190/130. Took 10 mg. Alt ace. Ramipril. And 100 mg metoprolol. And. Small .25 of xanax. For possible panic. No change in bp. Went to urgent care. After 2 hours. BP 180/125. Sent me to er. No organ damage. . 5 hours later. Bp Started to come down. Discharged with bp 160/101. Prescribed Clonidine. This all happened today. Not sure . Why. But my bp is high. And I've doubled my meds . I'm 59. Male. 5' 11" 170 lbs In shape. No Smoking no alchohol no bad food. 3 hours at gym daily. Why would my BP spike. Nobody knows It stays around 160 / 100. No answers. Just more meds.

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Commonly used drugs for hypertensive urgency

Mine was 227/187 and was sent to the er with no symptoms it’s stayed that high for 4hrs.

Thanks 💜 Is oral Nifedipine like sublingual Nifedipine!! Also not prefer in urgency HTN??

What do I do assuming am in the house alone, and I detect that my blood pressure is elevated?

could I get organ damage with a blood pressure of 150/100?

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