Sitting on lower portable chairs produced a higher increment in blood pressure due to increased cardiac output, with the 38 cm fishing chair deemed most useful by patients with autonomic failure.
Does sitting on lower portable folding chairs improve postural hypotension in patients with autonomic failure?
Using a lower portable chair, such as a 38 cm fishing chair, can effectively improve postural hypotension in patients with autonomic failure by increasing cardiac output.
The effect of sitting on a derby chair (height, 48 cm), fishing chair (38 cm), and footstool (20 cm) on the improvement of postural hypotension was studied serially in 8 patients with autonomic failure. The increment in blood pressure during sitting was higher by using a lower portable chair. This was related to an increasing cardiac output at lower sitting heights. The fishing chair was, according to our patients' experience, most useful.
Smit et al. (Mon,) conducted a other in Autonomic failure with postural hypotension (n=8). Portable folding chairs vs. Compared serially against each other was evaluated on Increment in blood pressure during sitting. Sitting on lower portable chairs produced a higher increment in blood pressure due to increased cardiac output, with the 38 cm fishing chair deemed most useful by patients with autonomic failure.