Blood Pressure Med Case Studies

The patient does have hypertension. He previously had been on a regimen of Zestoretic, which he stopped on his own and watching blood pressures, we saw that his blood pressure had remained normal for quite some time. Starting again in May of this year, his blood pressures have escalated here in the office. He was checking them outside of the office and they were high as well. He tells me when he was checking them at the pharmacy they were ranging in the 170's over diastolic unknown. I asked him to restart the Zestoretic, which he did, but unfortunately has been out of now for the last two days. His blood pressure here today, however is 128/76. He tells me he has been tolerating the medication without any side effects. He did do the metabolic panel I requested showing normal and stable findings. He is not exercising. He does use tobacco. His weight is up a couple of pounds since I have last seen him.

The nurse has to focus on the eyes system and blood circulation system. This is because the patient has pain in the right eye, and also he has been hypertension.

The purpose of this experiment was to see how different genres of music affect blood pressure (BP). The hypothesis was that songs with higher beats per minute (BPM) would cause an increase in BP. The items that were used in this experiment were an automatic BP monitor, a mp3 player, five different types of music, and a set of headphones. The subject would stand for a minute, have the resting BP measured, then listen to the selected song for two minutes, and again have the BP measured. From all of the genres Meditation the music that lowered BP the most, while Rock raised it significantly.

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Ms.[Name] returns today. She relays that she is doing well. She is having troubles with her weight, as we discussed it.

target blood pressure before starting VSPi. To this end, shorter acting antihypertensive medications with closer follow up may be more suitable to avoid any delays in starting VSPi. As long as an adequate plan has been established between the patient and physician, the dose titration to achieve target BP can be achieved while the patient is on VSPi. It may not be necessary to delay initiation of VSPi if the blood pressure is not at target, as long as it is not elevated to levels that are more likely associated with acute complications. [Maitland 2010] If the patient is already on antihypertensive medications, the importance of adherence and regular follow up should be explained, and the patient should be initiated on a single antihypertensive medication, titrated to maximum tolerated dose in order to achieve the target blood pressure before adding a second medication if required. [Maitland 2010]

Getting your blood pressure taken is the first thing that nurses do when giving a check up to their patients. When getting blood pressure checked the nurses put the arm ring, which goes around the arm of the patient, is very uncomfortable and bulky. I have thought of a way that uses newer technology. The supplies I will be using would be the blood pressure monitor and a piece of the heat monitor. The piece of the heart monitor I would be using is the clamp that goes on the patient’s finger. The reason I am going to use this is because it is, seems to be, the more efficient way to make the blood pressure monitor less uncomfortable and bulky as I had stated earlier. Sense I’m not using the clamp for the heart monitor to check the heart I need to enhance the clamper. The way I would enhance the clamper would be to make the sensor a little more sensitive to the blood flow going through the arteries. Instead of the blood pressure monitor going around the patients arm it would clamp on top the finger. In order to get the proper measurement,

Convenience sampling was used to recruit patients with reported uncontrolled BP from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center clinic located in Brooklyn and Manhattan (July 2006 to March 2009).

America is in one of its most violent wars, and up to this point it is losing miserably. Our obsession with salt is killing us and the numbers will continue to rise unless we get a grip on sodium intake and deduce our levels substantially. We are not without hope there are various things we can do to lower High Blood Pressure (HBP). We will look at some of the recommendations that will help us to live healthier and productive lives well into our twilight years. It will take some radical lifestyle changes, but the sooner we start the better our quality of life will be.

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Average male data regarding systolic blood pressure indicated that as power output increased, systolic BP increased in a relatively linear fashion. Regarding 4th stage diastolic blood pressure, as power output increased, 4th stage diastolic BP stayed fairly stable and then had a spiked increase around the final/highest power output completed. Regarding 5th stage diastolic blood pressure, as the power output increased, these values also stayed fairly stable with a little increased around the final/highest power output completed. Pulse pressure also had a linear increase in response to an increased power output due to the increase in systolic blood pressure. Finally, heart rate increased linearly with increasing power output until individuals approached maximum in which case it began to plateau.

Essential hypertension is consider to be high blood pressure that doesn’t have a known secondary cause. It is also referred to as primary hypertension. Blood pressure is the measure of the force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. Normal blood pressure is consider to be less than 120 over 80, prehypertension is 120-139 over 80-89, stage 1 high blood pressure is 140-159 over 90-99, stage 2 high blood pressure is 160 and above over 100 ad above, and high blood pressure in people over age 6o is consider 150 and above over 90 and above.1 Essential hypertension remains a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease despite important advances in the understanding of its pathophysiology and the availability of effective treatment

Although there are beneficial in testosterones, from the case presented, certain causative factors can be deduced. 1. Hypertension by itself can cause erectal dysfunction and in an attempt to treat the hypertension with hydrochlorothiazide, testosterone is compromised, further worsening the erectile dysfunction (Al Khaja et al., 2016). Once the testosterone level drop to that critical level, patient metabolism is slowed. Patient becomes less active and gained core weight. As the patient gains weight, more fat is studded up which leads to increase estrogen production that further suppresses the effect of the testosterone (McCance & Huether, 2015). Therefore, my initial intervention in this patient will be

After three consecutive measurements of Mr. Hightower's blood pressure with the same blood pressure machine, his BP remains in the range of 140's - 150's/80's -90. Mr. Hightower denies "white coat syndrome", a condition in which a patient's anxiety causes an increase in his/her blood pressure in a medical environment. Katzung (2015) defines hypertension as the most common vascular disease (p.169). It affects both men and women equally. According to Katzung (2015), 60-80% of men and women will develop hypertension by the age of 80 (p.169). Hypertension increases the risk of organ damage. Effective treatment is important to reduce overall morbidity and mortality. Edmunds (2009) reports that antihypertensive therapy has been associated with significant

The hypotension is a condition in which the blood pressure is much lower than the values considered being normal. Blood pressure varies from person to person. In general it is considered hypotension a condition in which the maximum pressure (or systolic) is equal to or lower than 90 mmHg and the minimum (or diastolic) is equal to or less than 60 mmHg. The hypotension causes are multiple and different significance: therefore vary from a trivial dehydration to more serious disorders. Low pressure is a disorder that can affect any person regardless of age.