Terms Related to Postural Hypotension

• Free-Standing Birth Center

  Free-standing facilities that provide prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care and usually incorporate family-centered maternity care concepts and practices.

• Hypotension

  Abnormally low blood pressure seen in shock but not necessarily indicative of it. (Dorland, 28th ed)

• Postural Syncope

  A transient loss of consciousness and postural tone caused by diminished blood flow to the brain (i.e., BRAIN ISCHEMIA). Presyncope refers to the sensation of ...

• Alcoholic Polyneuropathy

  A condition where damage to the peripheral nervous system (including the peripheral elements of the autonomic nervous system) is associated with chronic ingestion of alcoholic ...