Patient/caregiver was educated upon risk factors and causes for hypotension as follows:
- Arrhythmia: Ineffective and disorderly activity of heart in individuals with history of arrhythmia result in compromised pumping of blood into circulation. This reduces the volume of blood in circulation. Low blood volume in circulation contributes to low blood pressure, resulting in hypotension.
- Heart failure: Poor blood and oxygen supply to the heart muscle in individuals with history of heart failure and cardiomyopathy results in damage to the heart muscle. Damaged heart muscle cannot contract effectively and has poor pumping activity, reducing the output of blood from the heart. This reduces the volume of blood in circulation, which contributes to low blood pressure, resulting in hypotension.
- Pregnancy: Women of child-bearing age group can be at increased risk for hypotension due to pregnancy. Significant blood volume could get redistributed during pregnancy, due to growth of uterine and fetal tissues, which could result in fluid volume deficit. This can lower the blood pressure, resulting in hypotension.
- Varicose veins: Individuals with history of varicose veins can have difficulty draining the blood in the deep veins. As a result, increased volumes of blood get accumulated in the veins, become stagnant, and does not return to the circulation. Poor volume in circulation can lower the blood pressure, resulting in hypotension.
