BP: how high is too high (at 2am)? i.e., when will Pt stroke out?

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wooh, BSN, RN

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Like everything else, it's relative. I agree with pretty much all the other good thoughts. And if it makes you feel better, I'd have also called, and I'm VERY conservative in my calls at night. (Not because I'm afraid to call the doctor, but because I don't think all that many things warrant a call in the middle of the night.) She was trending up, and this was a middle of the night, supposedly at a "relaxed/sleeping" time, so it concerns me more than a BP above their trend mid-afternoon. Throw in risk of DTs, I'd call.

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