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What is traumatic shock?

Traumatic shock is a condition that occurs when a person has been severely injured. This usually happens when there is severe blood loss or a long lack of oxygen to the brain.


Hypovolemic shock cause by severe burns is the result of a loss of?

whole blood


What cause hypovolemic shock?

Hypovolemic shock is primarily caused by poor perfusion, usually from excess blood or fluid loss from the body. Hypovolemic shock is the most common type of pre-hospital shock often resulting from moderate or severe trauma.


What are the three types of shock?

The three types of shock are hypovolemic shock (caused by severe loss of blood or fluids), distributive shock (caused by inappropriate vasodilation leading to decreased blood flow), and cardiogenic shock (caused by heart failure leading to inadequate circulation).


What type of shock involves blood loss?

traumatic shock


What causes metabolic shock?

Metabolic shock, also known as metabolic crisis, can be caused by severe illness or injury that disrupts the body's ability to maintain proper metabolic function. This can lead to a cascade of events including cell damage, organ failure, and ultimately shock. Common causes include severe infections, trauma, heart failure, and severe blood loss.


What is hypovolic shock?

Excessive loss of blood


Is most common form of shock hypovolemic shock?

only that form of shock caused by large scale loss of blood.


What is CLINICAL shock?

In medicine shock implies a failure by the circulation to meet the metabolic demand of the tissues. The failure of the circulation is usually, but not always, reflected by hypotension (low blood pressure). Shock can result from loss of blood or severe fluid losses (hypovolaemia), loss of fluid from the circulating blood volume inside the body (distributive shock), weakness of the heart's contraction (cardiogenic shock) loss of the constrictive tone of the blood vessels (vasodilatory shock) and obstruction of the blood flow (obstructive shock). Often the cause of shock is a mix of more than one of these mechanisms. Examples of specific causes of shock include: haemorrhage, burns, severe diarrhoea, anaphylaxsis, systemic infection, myocardial infraction, pulmonary embolism and cardiac tamponade. Untreated persistent clinical shock will progress to multiple organ dysfunction and eventually death. While anxiety, and psychological distress are symptoms of shock (caused by the activity of the sympathetic nervous system) the medical syndrome of clinical shock is quite distinct from the lay concepts of psychological shock perpetuated by the media.


What percent of blood loss is needed to cause shock?

A healthy adult has 5 Liters of circulating blood and another 500 ml as reserve in the spleen. Loss of up-to 500 ml of blood will not usually produce any tachycardia or hypo-tension unless fear of blood loss occurs in an otherwise healthy person.


Why do people lose 2pints of blood?

A severe blood loss injury


Shock is caused by?

Shock is usually caused by trauma, blood loss, dehydration or massive infection