New Insights in Hypertension

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic illnesses encountered in the perioperative period. Therefore, the preoperative assessment of hypertensive patient is both a common and an important problem for the anesthesiologists, because of the deleterious and predictable effects of hypertension on cardiovascular, renal and cerebrovascular function, individuals with untreated hypertension have significant perioperative morbidity. This article presents an overview on the current literature regarding the hypertensive patients and a simple graphic strategy for the perioperative management of hypertension and its impact on perioperative outcome.