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Hypertensive emergency

Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed

58-year-old woman for Hypertensive-emergency reassessment in a monitored cardiac unit. About 9 simulated minutes.

What you will practise

  • Verify the authored measurement conditions and reconcile the repeated pressure, symptoms, medication interruption, and whole-patient trajectory.
  • Identify acute renal and retinal target-organ injury while screening other current organ emergencies and deterioration triggers.
  • Review the renal-retinal phenotype, medication interruption, and open primary and secondary contributors without assigning one cause.
  • Record prompt monitored, syndrome-specific pressure-control intent without selecting a drug, dose, infusion rate, universal target, or rapid normalization.
  • After elapsed time, review the authored 45-minute pressure, symptoms, perfusion, and neurologic panel without claiming learner-delivered response.
  • After another elapsed interval, hand off the authored 3-hour renal-retinal, pressure, symptom, cause, treatment, and ownership trajectory.

Review and sources

Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.

  • Jones DW, Ferdinand KC, Taler SJ, et al. 2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Circulation. 2025. doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001356.
  • Bress AP, Anderson TS, Flack JM, et al. The Management of Elevated Blood Pressure in the Acute Care Setting: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Hypertension. 2024;81:e94-e106. doi:10.1161/HYP.0000000000000238.

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Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.