Femoral nerve block is effective in reducing pain, but may cause falls after TKA (Ilfeld et al. 2010).
Anticholinerg drugs [ 4] often affect patients' cognition adversely, increase treatment costs due to increased hospitalizations, and may cause falls [ 10- 13].
Lack of handrails in the entrance area may cause falls, and falls and fall-related injuries are well-known mortality risks among old and very old people [ 35].
Prolonged use of BZDs may produce somnolence, memory impairment, and daytime drowsiness; may cause falls resulting in hip fractures; and may result in motor vehicle accidents [ 7- 9].
The causal relationship was probably not directly linked with a side effect of the substance used, but rather a reflection of other pathologies that may cause falls.
Using ladders or reaching for distant corners may cause falls or other accidents.
Though it is premature to hazard a prediction it is universally admitted that the affair with the Vatican has reached a critical point and may cause the fall of the Cabinet.
Reverse causality however, likely explains the shorter time interval associated with injury and disease onset; that is to say that early stages of PD when it is not yet diagnosed may cause a fall resulting in MTBI.
Moreover, changes in acid-base status may affect the SCVo2 response [ 9]: initiating mechanical ventilation may cause a fall pH due to the relief afforded by hyperventilation, and consequently the haemoglobin dissociation curve might be shifted to the right, which would result in a less pronounced increase in SCVo2.
Anxiolytics and hypnotics are widely used and may cause injurious falls.
Increasing shortening proportions increases tenderness, but very high proportions may cause cakes to fall.
