Hypertensive crisis:its management / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Hypertensive crisis is defined as significantly elevated blood pressure accompanied by heart,kidney and central nervous system and other target organ damage. Hypertensive crisis is rare but often occult in children. It acts as a serious threatening to children′s health. At different ages,there are different eti-ologies of composition. So the hypertensive children need to be monitored closely,and given targeted individ-ualized treatment. Venous anti-hypertensive drugs are recommended to be used under monitoring as initial treatment to control the blood pressure decline speed precisely,and then gradually changed to oral anti-hyper-tensive drugs,to maximize the protection of target organs and avoid permanent damage caused by fluctuation of the blood pressure.