A suppressed response of the baroreceptor
mechanism
-orthostatic hypotension is a decrease in arterial pressure that occurs
when a person moves from a supine to a standing position. a person with a normal baroreceptor
mechanism responds to a decrease in arterial pressure through the vasomotor center by
increasing sympathetic outflow and decreasing parasympathetic outflow. the sympathetic component
helps to restore blood pressure by increasing heart rate, contractility, total peripheral resistance
(tpr), and mean systemic pressure. in a patient who has undergone a sympathectomy,
the sympathetic component of the baroreceptor mechanism is absent