hypotensive
- adjective
- /ˌhaɪpəˈtɛnsɪv/
- Specialized
- Despite fluid boluses and blood transfusions, Ryan remained hypotensive and continued to have fluid losses from his GI tract.
- hypotensive anesthesia
- the hypotensive patient
Examples
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Several hours after the completion of the chemotherapeutic treatment, the patient became acutely hypotensive and cyanotic, and ischemic changes were noted on his nose and digits.
Academic text (2006) -
During hypotensive general anesthesia, a target blood pressure of 50 to 65 mm Hg is safe for young, otherwise healthy patients.
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The possible complications of hypotensive general anesthesia primarily involve the nervous system.
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She was returned to the operating room where she continued to bleed and became hypotensive (60 mmHg) upon induction of anesthesia.
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Hypotensive general anesthesia may be appropriate for several types of operations, including head and neck surgery, neurosurgery, large orthopedic procedures, and a variety of plastic surgical procedures.
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Hypotensive anesthesia is effective in lessening blood loss, but there may be more blood loss postoperatively, and the patient may be hypotensive (Feingold et al., 1991).
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We did not perform preoperative embolization because we believe that intraoperative bleeding of lesions that have not spread extensively can be controlled by good hypotensive general anesthesia.
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They placed pulmonary artery catheters in those 55 patients and administered dobutamine to 23 of those patients who remained hypotensive after fluid resuscitation.
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Therefore, we believe that intraoperative bleeding can be adequately controlled with good hypotensive general anesthesia in patients whose tumor does not extend into the infratemporal fossa or cranium.
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The doctor explained that she was hypotensive due to dehydration and needed immediate treatment.
Antonyms
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hypotensive = hypotension (semi-transparent) = hypo + tension + ive
The adjective is regularly formed from 'hypotension' with '-ive', but the medical sense is specialized rather than fully obvious to a general learner.
Etymology
Hypotensive comes from the parts hypo- meaning 'under' and tensive linked to tension meaning 'pressure', so the word points to 'lower pressure' and is used for someone or something with abnormally low blood pressure.