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Monday, March 17, 2008

Think of shock before hypotension

Hypotension can be a relatively late manifestation of shock, and you need to think of it before. There are localized markers such as sublingual pCO2 which can be useful, but other parameters such as lactate and urine output should also be markers.

You can't diagnose shock if you don't think of it.
Posted by Stuart Forman at 9:16 PM

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