Patients will be asking about the new Joint National Committee (JNC 8) hypertension guidelines, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on December 18. The new guidelines emphasize control of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) with age- and comorbidity-specific treatment cutoffs. ICD-10 code I16.1 for Hypertensive emergency is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the circulatory system . Search across ICD-10 codesets. Look up medical codes using a keyword or a code. The syndrome of hypertensive emergency was first described by Volhard and Fahr in 1914 and was characterized by severe accelerated hypertension, accompanied by evidence of renal disease and by signs of vascular injury to the heart, brain, retina and kidney, and by a rapidly fatal course ending in heart attack, renal failure, or stroke . An alternative term for hypertensive crisis is malignant hypertension. In this chapter, the terms are used interchangeably. Hypertensive crisis may present in a variety of ways demanding emergency treatment . Treatment should assume higher priority than diagnostic procedures. Severe hypertension in adults (often defined as systolic blood pressure ?180 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ?120 mmHg) can be associated with a variety of acute, life-threatening complications, any one of which is considered a hypertensive emergency . These include hypertensive encephalopathy, retinal hemorrhages, papilledema, or Setting blood pressure (BP) goals is not an exact science. Such goals have generally relied on findings from clinical trials that typically have differed in such important variables as age of participants, entry and exclusion criteria, presence or absence of concomitant illnesses, severity of hypertension, treatment regimens, and therapeutic goals. Hypertensive crisis, guideline, management, hypertensive emergencies, hypertensive urgencies, renal sufficiency i