“…Hypertensive emergency (HE) is acute elevation of blood pressure (SBP > 180 mmHg, DBP > 120 mmHg) accompanied by end organ damage primarily in eyes, brain, heart, aorta, kidneys (Williams et al 2018, Baumann 2016 Hypertensive urgency (HU) is defined as acute elevation of blood pressure above often used arbitrary limit of SBP > 180 mmHg and/or DBP > 120 mmHg, without end organ damage (Baumann 2016). The prevalence of arterial hypertension in general public adults in Croatia is about 37.5% (Kralj et al 2017). Around 5% of patient visits to the out-of-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) units in Croatia is associated with hypertension, but mostly without hypertensive emergency (Simi et al 2017).…”