Keywords
Emergency medical services
Hypertension
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze the pattern of antihypertensive drug prescriptions in the emergency room, relating it to the variation of blood pressure and the age of individuals, evaluating the existence of inadequate prescriptions. Methods: The approach of this work is an integrative literature review using the databases National Library of Medicine, Virtual Health Library and Directory of Open Access Journals databases. The descriptors used were “Antihypertensive”, “Emergency Medical Services” and “Treatment”. Inclusion criteria were randomized, non-randomized clinical trials, case-control studies, cohort study, free access, published in English, Portuguese, Spanish and between 2012 and 2022. Results: The 19 selected articles were evaluated. antihypertensive drugs prescribed in emergency services and a comparative table was constructed, which is composed of the number of individuals approached in the studies, year of publication, main prescriptions, main blood pressure variation to receive such prescriptions and age group. Final considerations: Thus, the most prescribed antihypertensive drug was Captopril in the pressure variation of 140x90 mmHg in people over 18 years of age, resulting in adequate prescriptions.
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