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Yakubu, Saidu Anaesthesia for Emergency Surgical Patients with Co-existing Hypertension: a Clinical Challenge Mendeley Data This study was a retrospective audit review of anaesthetic charts, case notes and operation records of patients that were operated at the accident and emergency (A&E) theatre of a tertiary hospital in the North-West region of Nigeria over a 6 months period. Patient’s age, sex, type of surgery and anaesthetic technique were collated. Data obtained were expressed as numbers and percentages. A total number of 270 patients had emergency surgery during the study period. Males constituted 140 (51.9%) of patients. Paediatric surgery had the highest number with 88 (32.6%) of patients followed by general surgery which had 70 (25.9%) patients. Gynaecological surgery had the lowest number of 10 (3.7%) patients as shown in Table 1. Forty (14.8%) of patients operated during the period had high blood pressure (>140/90mmHg). Twelve of the hypertensive patients (30%) had urological operations followed by general surgical procedures with 11 patients (27.5%). Four patients (10%) had gynaecological surgery (Table 2). The technique of anaesthesia used for the hypertensive patients are as shown in Table 3. Anesthesia Lawal, Ibrahim Ibrahim Muhammad, Shehu Toro El Amin, Idris Mohammad Bako, Ahmed Tijjani Dataset doi:10.17632/g49zwsy2wc.1 oai:data.mendeley.com/g49zwsy2wc.1 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/g49zwsy2wc 2020-09-16T20:11:57Z