Treating Early Hospitalization Blood Pressure Deemed a No-No for Patient Safety
For older people hospitalized with noncardiovascular diagnoses, intensive lowering of asymptomatic inpatient blood pressures (BPs) may constitute overtreatment and lead to harm, observational data suggested. U.S. veterans acutely treated for elevated systolic BP in the first 48 hours of hospitalization — without evidence of acute end organ damage — suffered more adverse events when counting […]