
Episode 261: RLR – Syncope Plus!
The Clinical Problem Solvers
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Syncope - What Is the Formula for Blood Pressure?
If your autonomic nervous system is not intact, then you can't compensate for the effect of gravity. What if you're on a med like a beta blocker or an anti-hypertensive agent, or an alpha blocker? And then finally, what if you just don't have enough volume? If he's getting up and feeling lightheaded and now has syncope, there's no way we can't frame this as syncope. But boy, we got to tell Robbie to calm down.
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