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Table 5 Medication and treatment administered in the emergency department

From: Profile of patients with hypertensive urgency and emergency presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania

 

Overall

Emergency

Urgency

p-value

Antihypertensive

N = 203

N = 138

N = 65

0.76

 Oral

3 (1.5%)

3 (2.2%)

0

 

 Sublinguala

12 (5.9%)

10 (7.2%)

2 (3.1%)

 

 IV

48 (23.6%)

41 (29.7%)

7 (10.8%)

 

Morphine

10 (4.9%)

7 (5.1%)

3 (4.6%)

0.92

Aspirin

2 (1.0%)

2 (1.4%)

0

N/A

Antibiotics

40 (19.7%)

31 (22.5%)

9 (13.8%)

0.15

Fluids

37 (18.2%)

25 (18.1%)

12 (18.5%)

0.95

Others

38 (18.7%)

29 (21.0%)

9 (13.8%)

0.22

  1. aThe sublingual medication used was nitroglycerin