Many. patients have a polytrauma, injuries to other parts of the body in addition to the head and brain. Trauma victims often develop hypermetabolism or an increased metabolic rate, causing muscle wasting and the starvation of other tissues.
1 Normal: Less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic. 2  Pre-hypertension: 120-139 systolic or 80-89 diastolic. 3  Hypertension: 140 or higher systolic or 90 or higher diastolic.  Hypertensive Crisis: higher than 180 or higher than 110 diastolic.
Primary (Essential) Hypertension. There are two broad categories of hypertension - primary (or essential) and secondary hypertension. Approximately 90-95% of patients diagnosed with hypertension have primary hypertension. Unlike secondary hypertension, there is no known cause of primary hypertension.