Abc news zombie thinks blood pressure of 200/167

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Someone who obviously knows nothing about medicine.

If I had a patient with a B/P of 200/167, first I'd shit myself, then I'd send them right to the nearest emergency room, then call ahead to the ER and tell them to clear the decks and get this patient in right away.

"Somewhat normal"...

She did preface it by saying not a doctor.

No kidding

But isn’t the bottom number supposed to be under 80? 70? And the top number should be closer to 100, or under?

200/167 is awful.

If it gets to 120 or above, it's considered emergent.

A doctor there told her to go straight to the ER
and that saved her life.

BP: 198/162. Usually 105/65. Was having trouble breathing. Called 911. Turned out I had had a PE...blood clots in both lungs. The high BP was from the stress of not being able to breathe, not from the PE, but it was a warning sign that I'm glad I heeded. I'm fine now.

Who has bp of 200/167?

Shown in trial from 5/29/19

Thanks. Sorry, I don't get the news channels.

It is common knowledge stressful circumstances can increase blood pressure temporarily.

Arrest would qualify as one such.

But the fact that Mr. Floyd had a blood pressure spike a year or so before he was murdered on the public way means nothing. It cannot in any way excuse, or reduce the culpability of, the man who murdered him, and the murderer's accomplices.

The issue prosecutor was hinting at was

"Did he need to go to the hospital?"


There is only one answer.

If that date is correct... they're saying that a prior arrest put him into a hypertensive emergency that could easily have been deadly.

Presuming nobody roughed him up as part of that interaction, it could help the defense given the specific charges.

Quite expert testimony, too, regarding the actual cause of Mr. Floyd's death under a murderer's knee.

Note that with that condition a year prior, he lasted some hours under hospital observation without displaying serious distress, let alone dying.

Irrelevant to the point it makes grasping at straws seem a ration effort by comparison.

... you know that there will be "experts" on both sides. The question is what the jury hears and what they consider to be a reasonable doubt.

It took me 30 seconds to find a medical study documenting a 12.5% short-term mortality rate for hypertensive emergencies... and the reported BP is well above the threshold (180/120). The fact that 87.5% survive at least a few days does not mean that it isn't a deadly emergency.

Add that to video evidence that Floyd was unable to breathe before anyone touched him at all? Doesn't change my conclusions as to the likely cause of death... but causes me to question whether a dozen jurors will unanimously agree with me.

I am inclined to give the former greater weight.

The man's blood-pressure while under the murderer's knee is unknown, no one having taken it. What his blood pressure was a year before is immaterial, even if the circumstances were broadly similar. Prior to Chauvin's murderous assault, he could have had blood pressure in a normal range, and there is in fact no particular reason to suspect he did not.

Nor does a one in eight possibility of death over a period of several days afflicted with such extreme hypertension say anything at all about the likelihood he might just have keeled over that day without the murderer's knee on his neck for nigh on ten minutes. Nor does it matter if, with the murderer's knee on his neck, he had a sudden episode of extreme hypertension and died --- that is just how the murder came to kill him. Murderers take their victims as they find them, and if a health condition afflicting the murderer's victim chooses the moment of the murderous assault to do its worst, that does not exonerate the murderer in the slightest.

His blood pressure in 2019 has nothing to do with his murder in 2020.