National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

Many a time we only confused with the signs and symptoms of a patient in hypertension.
Here is a quick way to differentiate which is which. We must first know the difference between each of these:
Hypertensive emergency: the size and increase in the PA or the circumstances in which hypertension occurs, it implies a life-threatening or serious organ damage that requires immediate control in minutes or hours.
Hypertensive Urgency: PA up to be checked quickly (days to weeks). In this situation, high BP is a potential risk, but has not yet caused severe organ damage. And we add a third concept that leads to let you monitor a patient.
Severe hypertension: high BP has not yet resulted in significant damage to the target organs. In these patients, hypertension does not necessarily require treatment in IBS, but requires strict medical supervision and long term. (more…)