POTS in Long Covid | Treatment and Management - With Dr Nick Gall

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome can be an incredibly dehabilitating part of many people's Long Covid experience. In episode 5 of our expert interview series, Dr Asad Khan and I talk to Dr Nick Gall, consultant cardiologist and one of the UK's leading specialists on the condition, discussing how it is diagnosed, treated, what the prognosis is and much more. REFERENCES: POTS UK www.potsuk.org/ CONTENTS: 0:00 Introduction 0:40 About Dr Gall 2:16 POTS in LC a surprise? 3:31 Range of cardiac complications in LC 4:35 Range of presenting symptoms 9:27 Scale of impact 12:35 Scientific understanding 18:23 Pre-covid POTS presentation 21:47 Treatments and efficacy 30:00 Patients’ self advocacy 32:55 Efficacy of alternative medicine 36:50 Limited role of anxiety 40:30 Prognosis 44:20 Will GP’s prescribe? 49:30 Ideal research study 55:00 One piece of advice

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