{"id":409,"date":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=409"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T06:06:26","slug":"updated-cpg-hypertension-in-children-and-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-hypertension-in-children-and-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Hypertension in children and adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Hypertension_in_children_and_adolescents\/\">Hypertension in children and adolescents<\/a> CPG has been updated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Severe hypertension requires urgent consultation and management. \u00a0Hypertension associated with encephalopathy is a medical emergency<\/li>\n<li>All hypertension in children requires monitoring and follow-up<\/li>\n<li>Blood pressure should be measured annually in healthy children<\/li>\n<li>Where possible, abnormal machine BP measurement should be confirmed, preferably with a manual BP, ensuring appropriately sized cuff is used for accurate measurement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This CPG was previously called Hypertension.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypertension in children and adolescents was an existing RCH CPG and will be considered for PIC endorsement in August 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}