Caracterización de la Crisis Hipertensiva

Introduction: The hypertensive crisis is due to an abrupt increase in tension figures, which put the integrity of the patient at risk, classifying in hypertensive emergency and hypertensive emergency, with different symptomatology, which requires management in the emergency area. Objective: Characterize the hypertensive crisis in patients who came to the emergency room. Materials and methods: study of descriptive, observational, prospective type, was carried out in the Emergency Department of the General Hospital of Zone # 23 ”, Teziutlán, Puebla, Mexico, in patients over 18, who complied with the inclusion criteria . Analyzing the characteristics presented during hypertensive lack of control and treatment granted. Results: A population of 73 patients was studied, observing a predominance in the male sex, affecting the young adult, which are self -employed, having type 2 diabetes as the main comorbidity, whose trigger is the bad attachment to treatment, with bases based on treatments of more than 2 antihypertensives plus a diuretic, manifested by headache, predominantly the hypertensive urgency; As for the treatment, greater efficacy by hydralazine was observed.Conclusions: According to the results obtained during the study, similarity to other studies previously related to the subject was observed similarity, as well as existing literature; with discrepancy in the acute treatment reported in this study according to the bibliography.