Hypertensive Crisis, Burden, Management, and Outcome at a Tertiary Care Center in Karachi

Table 3

Mean drop in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in ER in patients with hypertensive crisis according to type of intravenous medication.

Intravenous medication	Mean (SD) drop in SBP*	value**	Mean (SD) drop in DBP	value
	No IV medication				43.16 (27.9)	0.03	17.54 (22.42)	0.009
Nitrate	58.86 (29.5)	29.86 (22.48)
Sodium nitroprusside	80 (15.5)	37.50 (7.77)
Labetalol	50.62 (29.2)	27.11 (17.42)
Hydralazine	48.18 (30.1)	18.50 (16.15)
Beta blocker	45.21 (25.7)	18.71 (17.95)

*Drop in SBP was SBP on admission to ER-SBP at discharge from ER.
** value is for comparison among the different intravenous medications.