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Shock
People can go into shock when their blood pressure becomes so low that the body's cells don't receive enough blood and therefore don't receive enough oxygen.
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Reviewed December 2011
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| Title: | Shock |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Shock is when you do not have enough blood circulating around your body. The lack of blood circulation caused by shock is a life-threatening medical emergency. Some of the many causes of medical shock include uncontrolled bleeding, severe burns and spinal injury. Emotional distress or sudden fright in response to a traumatic event is also often called 'shock' |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Vasopressors for hypotensive shock |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Circulatory shock is broadly defined as circulatory failure resulting in the body's inability to maintain organ perfusion and to meet oxygen demands. It usually presents with low blood pressure. Up to every third patient with circulatory shock may be ad... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | First aid - broken bones |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Bones are living things so if they are broken they will leak out blood into the surrounding tissue. Fractures are painful. |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Naloxone for shock |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | When people go into shock, their blood pressure drops and may be too low to sustain life. One theory about the cause of this is the effect of the opiates that the body produces after major blood loss or trauma. Naloxone is a drug that counteracts the ef... |
| Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Title: | Timing and volume of fluid administration for patients with bleeding |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | About one third of injury deaths are due to shock from blood loss. Preventing shock in people with uncontrolled bleeding is, therefore, very important and is generally done by giving fluids intravenously. The aim is to maintain blood pressure and reduce... |
| Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Title: | Postnatal phenobarbital for the prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is not enough evidence that phenobarbital is effective in preventing intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in premature babies. Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a major problem of preterm birth. Large bleeds in the centre of the brain can cause di... |
| Date: | May 2007 |
| Title: | Medical anti-shock trousers (pneumatic anti-shock garments) for circulatory support in patients with trauma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | About one third of injury deaths are due to shock from blood loss. Preventing shock in people with uncontrolled bleeding is therefore vital. Treatment aims to maintain blood pressure, so that tissue damage is minimised. Medical anti-shock trousers (MAST... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Dopamine versus dobutamine for hypotensive preterm infants |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dopamine improves low blood pressure (hypotension) in preterm babies more effectively than dobutamine in the short-term, but evidence on safety and long-term effectiveness is needed. Hypotension may cause brain injury and other serious problems for pret... |
| Date: | May 2003 |
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