Armenia Healthcare Licensing Exam Practice Questions - Centralized Examination For Individual And Transitional Individual Licenses Of Senior Healthcare Workers (Armenia) Exam

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A 52-year-old man has a blood pressure of 210/120 mmHg and a mild tension-type headache but no visual disturbance, chest pain, dyspnea, focal neurologic deficit, papilledema, acute kidney injury, or troponin elevation. What is the most appropriate management approach?

Use intravenous nitroprusside to lower mean arterial pressure by 50% within 1 hour Start or adjust oral antihypertensive therapy and arrange prompt outpatient reassessment Give intravenous labetalol and obtain an emergency contrast head CT despite no neurologic findings Administer immediate-release sublingual nifedipine to normalize the pressure rapidly

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Start or adjust oral antihypertensive therapy and arrange prompt outpatient reassessment

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