Curriculum Quiz: ACCS Acute

We thought we'd create this mini summary of the resources we've found here and elsewhere to enable you to get the background to proficiently deliver and teach emergency medicine skills.

A hypertensive emergency is defined as the clinical situation in which there is a marked elevation of blood pressure (BP) associated with acute or progressive end organ damage, e.g. cardiovascular, renal or neurological dysfunction.

Blood pressure is a fickle beast and one that I’m not sure many of us really understand. We’re fabulous at treating it if it’s too low… but when it’s too high, our practice is a bit more varied.