Deep Dive R10 (IT)
EM Clerkship
Zack Olson, MD ; Mike Estephan, MD ; Maddie Watts, MD
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hypertensive emergency? Urgency? Crisis? What’s the difference?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, med students. This is Zach Olson. It is clerkship season. If you are heading into |
| 0:06.9 | emergency medicine and need to crush your upcoming EM rotation, then I highly encourage you to check |
| 0:13.1 | out EM Clerkship's Procrastinator's Guide to Emergency Medicine. This course is not the same as what you |
| 0:19.1 | get on the podcast. It is condensed in high yield, designed so that you can hit the ground running and make a great first impression in the ER. |
| 0:29.1 | You can find a link at our website, www.emclerkship.com. |
| 0:34.3 | Click Procrastinator's Guide to Emergency Medicine. |
| 0:37.2 | Now enjoy your show. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, residents, and welcome back to EM Clerkship. My name is Maddie Watts, and this is our deep dive. |
| 0:48.3 | We're going to be talking about what is hypertensive emergency? What is hypertensive urgency? What is hypertensive urgency? What is hypertensive crisis? |
| 0:56.7 | This is one of those things that sounds so straightforward when you first learn in preclinicals, |
| 1:02.1 | and then you get to clinicals or residency or even attendinghood, and it all stops making sense. |
| 1:08.0 | Because the truth is, real life is is quite nuanced and it makes you question everything |
| 1:13.0 | that used to seem so simple in preclinicals but don't worry we're going to get into all of your |
| 1:18.8 | burning questions today about hypertensive emergencies but before we do a word from our sponsor |
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| 1:30.9 | Disability insurance is one of those things that you just don't think about until you need it. |
| 1:36.7 | None of us ever want to imagine becoming disabled to the point where we cannot do the job that we've trained so hard to do. |
| 1:43.9 | But unfortunately, it does happen, |
| 1:45.9 | and it happened to Stephanie Pearson. Our job requires the use of our hands for procedures. It |
| 1:52.1 | requires us to be mobile around the department. And if we ever were to incurred disabling condition, |
| 1:57.4 | it may really limit our ability to practice emergency medicine. |
| 2:01.6 | General disability insurance only covers you if you cannot work at all as a physician, |
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