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Description and Symptoms of Shock
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Tags: Shock, tissue perfusion, oxygen, nutrients, hypoperfusion, hypoxia, cardiac arrest, symptoms
Shock is a serious medical condition where the tissue perfusion is insufficient to meet the required supply of oxygen and nutrients. This hypoperfusion state is a life-threatening medical emergency and one of the leading causes of death in a critically ill person.
| | Anxiety, restlessness, altered mental state due to decreased cerebral perfusion and subsequent hypoxia. |
| | Hypotension due to decrease in circulatory volume. |
| | A rapid, weak, thready pulse due to decreased blood flow combined with tachycardia. |
| | Cool, clammy skin due to vasoconstriction and stimulation of vasonconstriction. |
| | Rapid and deep respirations due to sympathetic nervous system stimulation and acidosis. |
| | Hypothermia due to decreased perfusion and evaporation of sweat. |
| | Thirst and dry mouth, due to fluid depletion. |
| | Fatigue due to inadequate oxygenation. |
| | Cold and mottled skin (cutis marmorata), especially extremities, due to insufficient perfusion of the skin. |
| | Absent pulse due to tachyarrhythmia. |
| | Pyrexia and fever, or hyperthermia, due to overwhelming bacterial infection. |
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