Shock

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Shock can result from severe blood loss due to trauma
• 2internal bleeding
• 3or major surgery
• 4causing hemorrhagic shock
• 5from the heart's failure to pump adequately due to a massive heart attack or severe heart failure
• 6causing cardiogenic shock
• 7from widespread infection triggering dangerous blood vessel dilation and leakage
• 8causing septic shock
• 9or from a severe allergic reaction causing sudden vessel dilation and airway swelling
• 10causing anaphylactic shock. Regardless of the specific type
• 11the underlying problem is inadequate blood flow and oxygen delivery to vital organs
• 12which rapidly leads to cellular injury if not corrected.