Episode 40: Asymptomatic Hypertension

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

University of Toronto EM Residency program director, Joel Yaphe and cardiovascular EM researcher, Clare Atzema discuss the guidelines, controversies, pearls & pitfalls of Asymptomatic Hypertension in the ED. The literature is thin in this area, and there are many controversies: Does an elevated BP measured in the ED represent true essential hypertension? Do these patients need to be worked up? Are they at risk of serious morbidity and mortality? Should we treat these patients in the ED with antihypertensives? Should we send them home on antihypertensives? and many more......

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emergency Medicine Cases.com. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's
0:06.9	brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto. On this month's episode number 40, asymptomatic hypertension and hypertensive emergencies,
0:27.7	we have with us Dr. Joel Yaffe and Dr. Claire Atzma.
0:31.5	Dr. Yaffi is an emergency physician at the University Health Network in Toronto.
0:35.5	He's the program director for the FRCP Emergency Medicine
0:38.5	Program and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He's also the assistant
0:43.0	director of education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UHN. He's the chair of the UFTEMC
0:49.7	committee and the director of the University of Toronto's annual update in Emergency Medicine
0:53.8	Conference in Whistler, BC. Dr. Atima is an emergency physician at Sunny Br. and the Director of the University of Toronto's annual update in Emergency Medicine Conference
0:54.3	in Whistler, BC.
0:55.9	Dr. Atima is an emergency physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto.
1:00.4	She's an adjunct scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaliative Sciences and an assistant
1:05.4	professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
1:09.1	She did a research fellowship at UCLA
1:11.4	prior to completing her postgraduate training
1:14.0	in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto
1:16.2	and received a Master's of Science in Epidemiology
1:19.7	also from the University of Toronto.
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