Case Report on Hypertension in Elderly Patients

Introduction: The other name of high blood pressure is hypertension. Blood pressure is the force exerted by person against wall of blood vessels. Normal value of blood pressure is 120/80 mmHg. Hypertension increases with increasing in age. It can cause various health complications like stroke, heart diseases and affect psychological health and sometimes cause death.

Clinical Findings: Chest pain, not having proper sleep, headache, irregular heart beat, loss of appetite, fatigue, anxiety, lack of coping ability.

Diagnostic Evaluation: After performing various kinds of the investigations the result is Hb% - 12.9 gm%, Total RBC Count – 4.6 millions/cumm, Total WBC count – 14500 millions/cumm, Monocytes – 2%, Granulocytes – 56%, Lymphocytes – 40%. Blood pressure – 160/100.

Therapeutic Intervention: Inj. Pantroprazole 40 mg IV x OD, Inj Emset 4 mg IV x TDS, Inj. Levoflox 500 mg IV x OD, Tab Amlo 5 mg orally x OD, Tab Zincovit 5mg orally x OD, Tab. Orotex XT 10 mg orally xOD.

Outcome: After treatment there was improvement in my patients condition such as relief from Chest pain, Insomnia, irregular heartbeat, Headache. Increase in nutrition pattern and was and was able to cope up with the normal life stressors. The elevated blood pressure which was 160/100 was under the normal condition it was 120/80 mmHg.

Conclusion: My Patient was admitted in Female Medicine ward no 23, AVBRH with known case of Hypertension and she had complains of Chest pain, Headache, loss of appetite, Insomnia. After getting proper treatment her condition was improved.