Beep Beep. Hey intern the patient’s blood pressure is 160/95. Do you want to do something.
No. The answer is no.
But honestly we have all been guilted into ordering some clonidine or god forbid some IV hydralazine.
Stop it. Just stop it.
Join the filtrate as we dissect a recent study looking at this issue with the lead author.
The Filtrate:
Joel Topf
Swapnil Hiremath
Jordy Cohen
AC Gomez
With Special Guest:
Tim Anderson @TimAndersonMD
Editor:
Priya Yenebere
Show Notes
Clinical Outcomes of Intensive Inpatient Blood Pressure Management in Hospitalized Older Adults
NephJC Summary | PubMed | JAMA Internal Medicine
The Jordy AC collab: An Interactive Ambulatory Nephrology Curriculum for Internal Medicine Interns: Design, Implementation, and Participant Feedback (PubMed)
Clinical Outcomes After Intensifying Antihypertensive Medication Regimens Among Older Adults at Hospital Discharge (PubMed)
Trends in Blood Pressure Treatment Intensification in Older Adults With Hypertension in the United States, 2008 to 2018 (PubMed)
Overlap Weighting: A Propensity Score Method That Mimics Attributes of a Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods)
Tubular secretions
Swap The Dispatcher by John Scalzi (Wikipedia)
AC A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney (NYT Review)
Tim Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Amazon)
Jordy The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Amazon)
Joel The Dolomites for hiking n Northern Italy