Shock Flashcards
Products of anaerobic metabolism?
Ethanol and lactate
What can cause shock?
- anaemia
- hypoxaemia
- cardiovascular disturbance
3 causes of CV shock?
> blood pressure - systemic vascular resistance > stroke volume - preload - after load - contractility > heart rate and rhythm
Clinics, signs of shock
- HR
- pulse quality
- mm colour
- capillary refil
- extremity /body temperature
- mentation
What can different heart rates tell you about the patient?
>normal -dogs 60-120 - cats 160-200 > tachycardia - compensation > bradycardia - decompensation shock - cats (do whatever they want!!)
Ddx tachycardia
- hypoxaemia
- anaemia
- pain
- tachyarythmias
Ddx bradycardia
Bradyarrythmia, ^ ICP
Use of ECG for shock?
- diagnose cause
- monitor
What makes the pulse quality change? Which pulses should be felt?
Difference between systolic and diastolic BP
- femoral pulse (palpate alongside auscultation)
- metatarsal (medial aspect)
> can be increased or decreased in shock
How can mm appear in shock? CRT? Ddx?
> pale - anaemia, hypoxaemia > injected - gingivitis > CRT CAN BE ^\v
How may temperature differ in shock?
> decreased extremity in mild to mod
decreased whole body
- common in cats
- means very severe in dogs
Levels of mentation
- obtained
- stupendous (painful stimulus only)
- comatose (not even pain)
Ddx : NEURO 1* dz
4 types of shock
> hypovolaemic - preload too low > vasodilatory - low systemic vascular resistance - LOOKS INJECTED MM (cf others look pale) > obstructive - not enough return to RA > cardiogenic - arrythmias
3 types of vasoconstrictive shock? Causes?
> hypovolaemic - dehydration - VD+ - haemorrhage - 3rd spacing - PU > obstructive - GDV - pericardial, effusion - pneumothorax > cardiogenic - arrythmias - systolic dysfunction
What must be remembered about stages of shock.
Only typical ^HR etc. In compensation stage, as they become decompensated HR DECREASES. Serious.