Hello, students. My name is Mike Estefan, and I thank you for joining me today on today's

episode of the EM Clerkship podcast. Today's episode is going to be focused on the emergent

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three hypertensive disorders of pregnancy that you need to be able to recognize in the ED. They are

all sort of similar and sort of exist on a spectrum.

Preeclampsia, eclampsia, and help syndrome.

We'll start by talking about these disorders in general and why they are bad.

We'll then briefly cover the definitions and then move on to the workup followed by treatment. We'll then summarize

the rest of the episode and then end the episode by answering a couple listener questions that

were emailed in. These hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are all thought to be related

to an abnormal placenta. Lots of theories exist, but from what I can find, it seems that chronic placental

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