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website whose name is Charlotte and thank you Charlotte for the excellent

suggestion that we talk about shock. So today we are going to be talking about the basics of shock, the four types, what you're going

to assess and how you're going to treat these patients.

We're also trying something a little bit different

and I hope that it works where we're going to be taking

these longer, more extensive topics and posting them as both a podcast and a blog post.

I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of that so that the iTunes description is not the entire

3,000 plus word blog post because I think that would be a little bit cumbersome.

I think I've got to figure it out but if for some reason I didn't and you're getting this on your iTunes with a ridiculously long

episode notes section it is because I failed miserably in my quest to be

technologically savvy. So anyway let's get started talking about shock so what is it exactly? The very short answer is that shock is that shock is a

syndrome of hypotension slash hypoprofusion that leads to inadequate oxygen delivery to the

tissues and impaired cellular metabolism and this is ultimately going to cause organ dysfunction or if it gets really bad organ failure.

So let's kind of back up and go through each of these things all as a whole. So the first thing is the state of

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