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.
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) (Definition) A blood pressure reading has two numbers: a systolic blood pressure (top number) and a diastolic blood pressure (bottom number). The systolic blood pressure is the pressure the blood exerts on the artery when the heart is at maximum contraction.