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This video breaks down the management of hypertension into an easy to understand flowsheet for practicing nephrologists and medical students. The flowsheet provides a visual representation of the step-by-step decision-making involved in managing a patient with hypertension. Dr. Piracha discusses the complications associated with this diagnosis. This concise diagnostic video tool helps clinicians make better decisions while taking care of their patients or quickly update their knowledge while preparing for an exam.
Introduction
This video breaks down the management of hypertension into an easy to understand flowsheet for practicing nephrologists and medical students.
About The Author
Kashif J. Piracha , MD FACP FASN FNKF is a dual board-certified physician currently in active clinical practice at Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Piracha is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has been a practicing physician for the last 15 years and has a broad range of experience treating patients in both short- and long-term acute care hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.
In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he is also the Clerkship Director of Internal Medicine for the Texas A&M College of Medicine at Methodist Willowbrook site. In this role, he is actively involved in mentoring, educating, and training the medical students who will be the torchbearers and leaders of tomorrow.
In appreciation of his contributions, Dr. Piracha was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 2012, a Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation (FNKF) in 2013, and a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN) in 2015.
Dr. Piracha is also an active speaker on healthcare related topics and is passionate about disease prevention, healthy nutrition and risk factor modification.
About this video
- Author(s)
- Kashif Piracha
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50315-3
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-031-50315-3
- Total duration
- 11 min
- Publisher
- Springer, Cham
- Copyright information
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
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Video Transcript
Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for joining me for this video. My name is Dr. Kashif Piracha. I’m going to be your host for this video. And the topic of this video is Hypertension (Management), an Algorithmic Approach.
I’m a dual board certified physician, currently in active clinical practice in Houston, Texas. And the reason I’ve created this algorithm is twofold. Whenever I encounter a patient with hypertension, I use this algorithm to make the correct decision about the treatment that I’m going to prescribe for that patient.
And whenever I am faced with a question about hypertension on a licensing exam or a test, then I use this algorithm to get to the correct answer. So I wanted to share my approach with you. I hope this approach will be helpful to you.
I do want to say that this is my personal approach on this topic. There could be other approaches out there which could be completely genuine and totally acceptable.
And also, remember that this particular algorithm, like any other algorithm, its scope is limited because of time constraints and space constraints. So therefore, I have only included some of the things that I consider most important.
There could be other things that could be playing a role in the management of hypertension, which I have not been able to include on this algorithm. So keep that in mind as we go through it. So without wasting any further time, let’s go ahead and jump right in.