Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department
PEMBlog
JUNE 2, 2025
While elucidating the underlying cause of the hypertensive emergency is important for a patients ongoing care, your role in the pediatric ED is to: 1) stabilize airway, breathing, circulation; 2) minimize worsening end-organ dysfunction by acutely lowering blood pressure; and, 3) start work up to evaluate cause (Patel 2012).
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