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Shock: Pathophysiology, Stage, Classification, and Treatment

Received: 7 December 2021    Accepted: 27 December 2021    Published: 31 December 2021
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Abstract

Shock is a state of resulting from an indented state of multiple important body works owing to decreased tissue perfusion. It is a circumstance that could menace life. Progressive stage of shock means failing compensatory mechanisms and the body’s compensatory mechanisms weaken to vindicate tissue perfusion. Hypovolemic shock is a circumstance of insufficient organ perfusion caused by destruction of intravascular volume, ordinarily acute. Distributive shock is a state of comparative hypovolemia sequencing from affiliated to pathology spread to other areas of the perfect intravascular volume and is more common form of shock. Dextran has considerable merits over distinctive types of colloids for the initial shock treatment owing to its antithrombotic properties whereby cell satisfactory is obviated and the occurrence of systematic circulations is decisively de-escalated. Drugs that de-escalate the hearts workload and pain such as morphine or fentanyl relieve anxiety or regulate heart rhythm. Vasopressor medications such as dopamine, norepinephrine, which are medications that constrict blood vessels and assists, escalate blood pressure. High amount of IV fluids very quickly and bestowing medications that will escalate the blood pressure to escalate blood flow to the rest of the body and organs.

Published in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.plm.20210502.16
Page(s) 50-55
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Keywords

Classifications, Pathophysiology, Shock, Stages, Treatment

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