Postural hypotension – a quality improvement project

Hyperventilation in postural hypotension.

Postural Hypotension and Anhidrosis

influence nerve growth factor synthesis in primary rat astrocytes. Heterogeneous cardiac sympathetic denervation and decreased myocardial nerve growth factor in streptozotocin diabetic rats: implications for cardiac sympathetic dysinnervation complicating diabetes. Stimulation of nerve growth factor synthesis/ secretion in mouse astroglial cells by coenzymes. A fluorescence-based method for mea...

Nurse led venesection: a quality improvement project

Venesection is a widely practised procedure, involving the removal of a unit of blood in order to treat haemochromatosis and polycythaemia. It is still well regarded due to a lack of better alternatives and a small side effect profile. At Barnet General Hospital, venesection has recently been a physician led service, unlike its neighbouring hospital at Chase Farm Hospital, which has a well run ...

New therapies for postural hypotension.

Patients with deterioration of the autonomic nervous system can have unexpected or even paradoxical reactions to common cardiovascular drugs. For example, patients with severe neuropathy of the peripheral autonomic system can have a pressor response to phenylephrine eye drops and a paradoxical increase in blood pressure (BP) from the antihypertensive clonidine.1 Currently, the only approved the...

Postural hypotension induced by atropine sulfate.

Previous tests on the use of large doses of atropine for the treatment of anticholinesterase poisoning have revealed postural hypotension following the administration of 2 mg. of this drug. In this study on 78 normal adult males, the cardiovascular responses to positional change after 2 mg. atropine have been measured and the mechanisms elucidated. Blood pressure response to tilting was normal ...