“…These postoperative falls represent a major source of potential morbidity for the patient, as well as regulatory and financial liability for the institution; therefore, substantial resources have been expended to understand which patients are at risk for falling and when these falls occur [2,4,10,12,15,16]. Numerous factors associated with falls have been identified, some of which are intrinsic to the patient, such as age and cognitive impairment, while other factors are related to the procedures and treatments that they undergo, such as medication side effects and muscle weakness from peripheral nerve blocks [3,9,10,13,17].…”