What is going on? Today we're going to be talking hyper-tensive urgency. Now a

disclaimer for today's episode we're going to be talking about the non-pregnant

patient. This discussion is going to

on hypertensive urgency and the non-pregnant patient.

Now, hypertensive urgency, let's get right into the material here,

and hypertensive urgency is simply a severely elevated blood pressure

without an organ damage.

And this is where a lot of people go wrong.

A lot of people go wrong because they start to look at the numbers and the numbers

don't necessarily matter all that much. What really matters here is if we have an organ damage.

It doesn't matter how high systolic, how high dystolic is. Now typically, for the most part,

we're looking at urgency when we have a systolic over 180 and a diastolic over 120.

And typically, again, we're looking at

hypertensive emergencies when we have a systolic over 200

over 220.

However, remember, the main differentiating factor between a urgency and emergency is simply

and organ damage.

So just to make this point very, very clear, if we have a systolic blood pressure right a

systolic blood pressure of let's say one seventy

however we have end organ damage that that is still considered a hypertensive emergency.

It's the end organ damage that matters, not necessarily the blood pressure numbers themselves.

So let's get right into the discussion with

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