2012 Hospital Hypertension Patients 
PEMBlog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This case was submitted by Dr. Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. 7,1 (2012): 33-5. and Joe M.
PEMBlog
JUNE 2, 2025
All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Upon entering the room, you find the patients nurse at the bedside already in mid-conversation with the patients parent. However, the presence of end-organ damage is the defining feature of a hypertensive emergency, rather than the absolute blood pressure value alone.
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