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Medical-Surgical Nursing · Chapter 14

Cold Shock: What Do You Do First

Hypovolaemic, cardiogenic and obstructive shock all arrive cold, clamped down and tachycardic — and the treatments are opposite. Five patients, four plausible actions each: put them in the order you would actually do them, then read the rule that decides it. One action in most cases is not a delayed step at all — it is a harm. Then work the blood-product bench.
Click the actions in the order you would perform them