Amanda Page, NR-P, FP-C, Author at DistanceCME

About Amanda Page, NR-P, FP-C

Amanda Page, NR-P, FP-C, is an EMS instructor with more than eight years of experience. She is a dedicated and talented clinician who works as a flight paramedic with the Life Flight Network in Aurora, Ore. She says her passion for education is driven by her never-ending goal to advance the pre-hospital profession, particularly in comprehension of pathophysiology.

How autonomic dysreflexia and hypertension connect

Autonomic dysreflexia is a medical emergency. Hypertension in a patient with a spinal injury is autonomic dysreflexia until proven otherwise. If you can treat the cause quickly, you can prevent some diseases that have high associated morbidity and mortality rates.