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Hypovolemic shock

Essam Hesham Khamis ID:1310

Hypovolemic shock: results when you lose more than 20 percent (one-fifth) of your body’s blood or fluid
supply.

Causes:
• It is caused by a sudden decrease in the intravascular blood volume relative to the vascular capacity.
• -Broken bones around your hips.
• -Cuts on your head and neck
• -Damage to organs in your belly, including your spleen, liver, and kidneys, because of a car accident or
a bad fall.
• -A tear in your heart or a large blood vessel, or a weakened spot in a large blood vessel that could burst.
• -Problems with your digestive tract, such as ulcers.

Specific manifestations

• *tissue hypoxia
• *increasing fatigue
• sever epigastric pain
• *vomiting
• The abdominal dilatation of the intestine with fluid diffuse

.Treatments

These include :
• -blood plasma transfusion
• -platelet transfusion
• -red blood cell transfusion
• -intravenous crystalloids

References

• -Hypovolemic shock
• FM Shamji, TRJ Todd
• Critical care clinics 1 (3), 609-629, 1985
• Elke Rudloff, Rebecca Kirby
• Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 24 (6), 1015-1039, 1994
• -Alan I Faden, John W Holaday
• Science 205 (4403), 317-318, 1979

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