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[email protected] I Can’t Get Up” Assessing Acute Collapse For Presentation PowerPoint and Handouts: http://wendyblount.com Wendy Blount, DVM Kinds of Shock
[email protected] Anaphylactic Shock •Obstructed airway •Acute allergic reaction •Lung Disease •Mast Cell Tumor Degranulation •Pleural air or effusion Cardiovascular Shock Neurogenic shock •Arrhythmia •Forebrain and brainstem - For Presentation PowerPoint •Left Heart Failure decreased consciousness •Right Heart Failure •Spinal cord – flaccid paralysis and Handouts: •Pericardial Disease Septic Shock http://wendyblount.com Hypovolemic Shock •Overwhelming infection •Dehydration Traumatic Shock •Hemorrhage •Due to pain •Hypoproteinemia Toxic Shock Hypoxic Shock •Due to inflammatory mediators, •Anemia endogenous and exogenous •Hemoglobin Pathology toxins Collapse Other Than Shock Assessment of Inability or Unwillingness to get up Collapse Profound Weakness Ataxia – lack of coordination •Metabolic weakness •Vestibular ataxia Quick Assessment •Hypercalcemia •Cerebellar ataxia Life Saving Treatment •Hypokalemia •Sensory ataxia •Hypoglycemia Paresis - loss of voluntary Physical Exam •Neurotoxins motor Emergency Diagnostics •Polyneuropathy •Lower Motor Neuron •Junctionopathy •CNS Lesion at level of History •Myopathy paresis Pain •Flaccid paresis In House Diagnostics •Spinal Cord/Nerve Pain •Upper Motor Neuron •Orthopedic Pain •CNS Lesion above paresis •Muscular Pain •Spastic paresis 1 Assessment of Assessment of Collapse Collapse Quick Assessment Life Saving Treatment