Simple Terms
What is another word for shock?
Hypoperfusion
Your PT is pale, cool, and diaphoretic and is visibly anxious. This indicates which stage of shock?
Compensated shock
List the three stages of shock
Compensated, deompensated, and irreversible.
Your PT has bright red blood spurting from their arm. What type of vessel was most likely lacerated?
Artery
This is the preffered time of dressing used in wound packing
Hemostatic dressing
Arteries - Arterioles - ________ - Venules - Veins
Capillaries
Your patient has a high fever after a recent surgery, their HR is 105, BP of 84/60 and they are responsive to verbal stimuli only. What type of shock is this?
Dsitributive OR septic shock specifically
Your PT is a 29 YOM who is hypertensive and tachycardic with pale, cool, clammy skin with severe respiratory distress. What term is used to define what the body is currently doing to stay alive?
Compensating
Your PT has a steady stream of dark red blood from a wrist laceration. What type of vessel was most likely lacerated?
Vein
Junctional
This type of shock is a result of a problem with the heart itself
Cardiogenic Shock
Your PT has suffered a GSW to the right thigh. There is a large amount of bright red blood. What type of shock will this PT most likely develop?
Hypovolemic Shock or Hemmorhagic Shock
This is the stage of shock where the PT will most likely not recover from
Irreversible shock
Your PT has a slow even flow of blood from thier fingers that cholla was pulled from. What vessel was most likely severed?
Capillary
Your PT has a GSW to the chest with bubbling present. There is a rice-krispy-like feeling around the area that is bubbling. What is this sensation referred to as?
Subcutaneous Emphysema
This type of shock happens due to an injury to the spinal cord
Nuerogenic shock
Your PT was struck with a 2x4 in the chest. The PT is unconscious with muffled heart tones, bradycardia, and JVD. What type of shock are they MOST likely suffering from. Double points if you name the injury!
Obstructive shock/Cardiac Tamponade
What is the term used to describe the bodys' movement of blood from extremities to the core during compensated shock?
Shunting
Your PT has bright red blood spurting from their forearm. You do not have a tourinquet; what can you do to control bleeding?
Direct pressure
A PT has suspected pericardial tamponade. They present with muffled heart tones, JVD, and bradycardia. What are these three things together referred to as?
Beck's Triad
This is the term describing the delivery of oxygen and removal of waste from the bodies tissues
Perfusion
Your PT C/O of CP. They are cool, pale, diaphoretic, and very anxious. The PT states "I feel like I'm going to die." What type of shock are they most likely suffering from?
Cardiogenic Shock
Distributive shock
Direct pressure, pressure dressing, tourniquet, Treat for shock.
Name the three main types of shock and what part of the "plumbing system" they are.
Distributive/Pipes, Cardiogenic/Pump, Hypovolemic/Fluid