Beta blockers are most common in causing OH compared to other antihypertensives

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This makes my baby geriatrician “history is everything” heart so sad — 40% won’t remember a loss of consciousness and 1/3rd will have no symptoms of hypotension 😭 #BGSconf

Dementia is now the 14th largest 'economy' in the world (Inc care costs, health costs) #BGSconf British Geriatrics Society

Asymptomatic hypotension should be dealt considering more falls will happen in years to come .

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So much learning #bgsconf Robert Briggs
OH is not good for older adults ➡️ more falls & fractures
1. Amnesia for events & lack of awareness of low BP
2. Low BP dips < 100 on 24BP ⬆️ falls / fractures
3. Watch out Bermuda Triangle - cognition/mobility /OH
4. B blockers & SSRI 🛑

Barriers to deprescribing at the end of life #bgsconf

Do you know which drugs to stop first in orthostatic hypotension? You might be surprised! The best drug is losartan, says laramitchell — and give it at night #BGSconf

Catching up on some more #BGSconf tweets while child is at coding club. This is soo useful! I'm quite surprised at the order, will change my practice.

Unexplained Falls

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Deture loss is frequent, expensive, and time-consuming or even impossible to replace. Does your ward have a system to check eg meal trays and bed linen before tidied away? #BGSconf

Had a fantastic 3 days at British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting! Special thanks to the very cool karl davis for letting me play a #BGSconf moderator for a few minutes until the real one showed up 🤣

Saturday morning and I’m back on MAU putting all my superb #bgsconf CPD into action. “Spunky monkeys” have already come up once in the conversation Janet Lord

What matters to older people? Autonomy, independence, wellbeing, confidence, choice and prevention of further ill health/injury #BGSrehab #BGSconf bgs.org.uk/Rehab

Initial approach to manage OH #syncope #BGSConf

I’ve always found the effect of “placebo” which Prof wagg describes as attention, coaching and conservative therapies striking in OAB trials. #BGSConf

The room’s starting to fill for #bgsconf . We start imminently!

Learning about ageing from monkeys 🐵 #BGSconf

Closing words from President elect Jugdeep Dhesi from this year’s Spring #BGSconf — we need to be getting our message out cohesively about delivering good health care for older people, and crutially how to be able to do that effectively and happily. “We are stronger together!”

Daniel Davis excellent overview on long term cognitive impact of #delirium #bgsconf . Delirium NOT a benign condition - evidence of active neuronal injury increasing…

The challenge of the LeedsFrailtyEducation is choosing how much to squeeze in says Sean Ninan.

I love this picture (although I've seen enough kids try to sit in cardboard boxes to question whether that box would retain any structural integrity...)
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