Scot Med J
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Estimate costs for health and social care services in managing older people in the community who fall. ⋯ Transparent, robust cost information demonstrates the substantial burden of falls for health and social care services and should be a driver for implementing evidence-based interventions to reduce falls.
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is the acquired, reversible syndrome characterised by apical ballooning and base hypercontractility and probably precipitated by emotional and physical stressors that cause a hyperadrenergic state. It presents as an acute coronary event without there being coronary disease. ⋯ To the author's knowledge, this is the first case of this syndrome occurring in such a prolonged septic process and where the primary focus was a surgical wound. This may indicate continued myocardial injury secondary to a sustained hyperadrenergic state as a possible mechanism for takotsubo cardiomyopathy, rather than a one-time catecholamine surge.