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Shock

Learn about the physiologic and clinical factors involved in identifying different etiologies of shock, as well as principles of management.

Released:

September 1, 2012

Audience:

Physicians, Emergency Medical Technicians, Medical Students, Paramedics

Learning Objectives

  • Define pediatric shock using oxygen delivery physiology rather than blood pressure alone

  • Identify early clinical signs of compensated shock in children.

  • Differentiate hypovolemic, cardiogenic, distributive, and obstructive shock by bedside assessment

  • Apply oxygen‑delivery principles to select fluids, inotropes, vasopressors, or inodilators

  • Recognize key physiologic differences between pediatric and adult septic shock

Author(s)

Thomas Shanley, MD

President & Chief Executive Officer | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chair of the Department of Pediatrics | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine a President & Chief Research Officer of the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute | Lurie Children’s.


Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH

Co-Director, OPENPediatrics; Co-Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation; Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine | Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia | Harvard Medical School

Citation

Shanley T, Wolbrink TA. Shock. 9/2012. Online Video. OPENPediatrics. https://learn.openpediatrics.org/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/3020/shock.

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