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This 5 page paper discusses hypovolemic shock and why it relates to nursing in particular. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Discussion The thing that separates hospitals from other medical care settings is the presence of the nursing staff. That is, there is medical care available at a moments notice at
all times. Nurses are present when doctors are not, and they may be the first to see problems developing in a patient. Further, they may be the ones who have
to act immediately and correctly to save their patients live. Were discussing "perioperative" nursing, a term which means the entire length of time from when surgery is first scheduled, through
the operation and recovery period, to the point at which the patient is discharged. In other words, a nurse in this is the nurse who will be with the patient
for his entire stay in the hospital. This makes the nurse the one who knows his medical condition best, and the one who can spot things going wrong. Hypovolemic shock
occurs when the patient has lost significant amounts of blood. It is not an illness, but the result of some sort of trauma or accident (Kelley, 2005). There are several
types of shock, and "[R]esuscitation of major trauma victims suffering from shock remains a challenge for trauma systems and trauma centers. Rapid identification, and ensuring correct, aggressive treatment, are necessary
for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" to "improve perfusion. Care providers must recognize and intervene
rapidly to support tissue oxygenation and blood flow; otherwise, these compensatory mechanisms will fail, resulting in a cascade of events to include inflammatory response, release of mediators, organ failure, and
death" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). The systemic failures apparently occur quickly, one after another, and unless the trauma team recognizes whats happening immediately and reverses it, they will lose the
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