HTN urgency medicine article, peritnent given the volume of patients we have seen with this lately. A real shocker I found as I was reading through the article was this one....who knew?
i.v. nicardipine with i.v. sodium nitroprusside for the treatment of hypertensive emergency in a randomized trial of 40 patients. Significant reductions in SBP and DBP were observed in both groups, with no significant time-dependent differences between groups. Patients randomized to nicardipine had a greater drop in noradrenaline levels compared with patients treated with sodium nitroprusside.
Definetly safer given the thiocy-anate toxicity effects of Nipride.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/715621_2
