Live at Annual Episode 1: Defining Blood Pressure Control in Acute Stroke with Dr Ali Seifi

Neurocritical Care Society Podcast · Aug 16, 2023 · 9m

Several measures of blood pressure (BP) control have been used including time to reach target BP, maintaining BP within target range, reducing BP fluctuation, achieving goals with monotherapy and avoiding multiple anti-hypertensive agents, achieving goals with minimum dose adjustments, avoiding discontinuation due to side effects, and preventing hypotension. There are multiple methods of quantifying these measures. The clinical relevance of various measures particularly relationship with acute kidney injury, and death or disability in patients with acute stroke or traumatic brain injury is…