If the Health Savings Account (HSA) owner dies, the HSA becomes the property of the named beneficiary. If the spouse is the beneficiary, the HSA can continue and the surviving spouse is subject to income tax only on HSA distributions not used for qualified medical expenses.
Carotid sinus hypersensitivity (CSH) is an exaggerated response to carotid sinus baroreceptor stimulation. It results in dizziness or syncope from transient diminished cerebral perfusion. Although baroreceptor function usually diminishes with age, some people experience hypersensitive carotid baroreflexes.
1 Baroreceptors. 2  overview. 3  baroreceptors, aka mechanoreceptors, sense changes in arterial pressure.  4 pressure sensors located in walls of carotid sinus and aortic arch. 5  respond to stretching. 6  carotid sinus.7  baroreceptors that respond to â AND â in arterial pressure (aka BP). (1) â in BP is sensed by baroreceptors in carotid sinus. 2  decrease in blood pressure = decrease in stretch. ( 3 2) â in stretch causes â firing of afferent nerves. 4  carotid sinus nerve (glossopharyngeal nerve, CN IX). 5  vagus nerve (CN X). ( 6 3) glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves synapse in nucleus tractus solutarius.