Table 2. Medical tests, treatment and referral of patients with com hypertensive emergency, urgency and pseudocrisis.
| Hypertensive emergency | Hypertensive urgency | Hypertensive pseudocrisis | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical tests | |||||
| Electrocardiography | 32 (42.1) | 69 (46.3) | 1 (6.3) | 0.009 | |
| Laboratory tests | 40 (52.6) | 52 (34.9) | 7 (43.8) | 0.037 | |
| Glycemia | 46 (60.5) | 70 (47) | 8 (50) | 0.156 | |
| Cardiac enzymes | 21 (27.6) | 47 (31.5) | 1 (6.3) | 0.101 | |
| X-ray | 27 (35.5) | 37 (24.8) | 3 (18.8) | 0.168 | |
| Computed tomography | 39 (51.3) | 13 (8.7) | 1 (6.3) | <0.001 | |
| Treatment | |||||
| Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors | 60 (72.3) | 254 (81.4) | 27 (67.5) | 0.043 | |
| Diuretic | 47 (56.6) | 187 (59.9) | 17 (42.5) | 0.107 | |
| Analgesic | 11 (13.3) | 97 (31.1) | 21 (52.5) | <0.001 | |
| Anti-inflammatory | 25 (30.1) | 47 (15.1) | 13 (32.5) | 0.001 | |
| Benzodiazepine | 9 (10.8) | 55 (17.6) | 8 (20.0) | 0.277 | |
| Calcium channel blocker | 6 (7.2) | 47 (15.1) | 2 (5.0) | 0.050 | |
| Antiemetic | 7 (84) | 39 (12.5) | 8 (20) | 0.189 | |
| Antiplatelet | 11 (13.3) | 42 (13.5) | 0 (0) | 0.047 | |
| Bronchodilator | 21 (25.3) | 26 (8.3) | 0 (0) | <0.001 | |
| Coronary vasodilator | 9 (10.8) | 36 (11.5) | 0 (0) | 0.077 | |
| Insulin | 11 (13.3) | 20 (6.4) | 1 (2.5) | 0.049 | |
| Betablocker | 2 (2.4) | 13 (4.2) | 0 (0) | 0.336 | |
| Sodium nitroprusside | 7 (8.4) | 5 (1.6) | 0 (0) | 0.002 | |
| Anticonvulsant | 8 (9.6) | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0) | <0.001 | |
| Referral | |||||
| Discharge | 2 (2.6) | 81 (57.0) | 13 (59.1) | <0.001 | |
| Admission | 65 (85.5) | 30 (21.1) | 1 (4.5) | <0.001 | |
| Death | 1 (1.3) | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0) | <0.001 | |
Results expressed as n (%).