Joan smith 55 years of age is a female patient who presents


Joan Smith, 55 years of age, is a female patient who presents to the intensive care unit with the diagnosis of intracranial hemorrhage. The patient stopped taking her antihypertensives suddenly because of the cost of the medications and she recently lost her job to outsourcing. The patient is slightly drowsy and complains of a headache and blurred vision. The patient's blood pressure is 200/130 mm Hg upon presentation. According to the definitions set by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detention, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC7), which type of hypertensive crisis is the patient currently experiencing?

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