Do you give a short-acting antihypertensive before starting outpatient hemodialysis on an asymptomatic ESKD patient with a predialysis blood pressure of more than 200/100?
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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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I rarely use short-acting antihypertensive agents. I usually give long-acting calcium channel blockers, b-blockers or ace inhibitors if the blood pressure is very high. Ultimately the best option would be to remove more and more fluid slowly over time if patient can tolerate it. However, I find fluid removal to have a delayed effect in lowering blood pressure often and in the short term increasing anti-hypertensive agents is the best option.
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