Mrs Kavitha shares her experience at MGM Healthcare for Hypertensive Emergency

Hypertensive Emergency

Dr Sabanayagam V, Senior Consultant and Clinical Lead, Department of Multidisciplinary Intensive Care at MGM Healthcare, talks about hypertensive emergencies and how these are a very common problem.

Hypertensive emergency is a severe form of high blood pressure. A hypertensive emergency is described as an immediate, severe increase in blood pressure, causing damage to at least one vital organ, such as the brain, heart, kidneys or even arteries. The doctor shares that hypertensive emergencies can affect both younger and older people and there are various reasons like lifestyle, body weight and stress that influence high blood pressure.

Mrs Kavitha shares her experience at MGM Healthcare. Dr Sabanayagam explained her condition clearly in detail to both her and her husband. She felt at peace with all the clarification given and is happy with MGM’s hospitality. At MGM, we always strive to give the best patient care and expertise to all our patients. We aspire to keep doing more, better.

Our Multidisciplinary ICU team is equipped with well trained intensivists and specially trained nurses and technicians, all with the expertise to handle cases from varied specialties, requiring various degrees of care and monitoring.