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.
The ranges are: 1  Normal: Less than 120 over 80 (120/80) 2  Prehypertension: 120-139 over 80-89. 3  Stage 1 high blood pressure: 140-159 over 90-99.  Stage 2 high blood pressure: 160 and above over 100 and 1  above. High blood pressure in people over age 60: 150 and above over 90 and above.