In patients with hypovolaemia, what are recommended as first line crystalloid?
Hartmanns or ringers lactate
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What is the difference between dehydration and hypovolaemia?
Dehydration is the loss of water that leads to increased osmotic pressure and hypovolaemia is the reduced intravascular volume (blood or plasma) that results in a fall in cardiac output
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What are the four stages of shock?
Initial, compensated, progression and decompensated
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Which receptor detects a fall in blood pressure?
Baroreceptors
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What is relative hypovolaemia?
The shift of fluid of blood between intravascular and extravascular spaces
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What is absolute hypovolaemia?
The direct loss of whole blood
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What are the two types of hypovolaemia?
Relative and absolute
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What are some of the signs of shock?
Decreased urine output, decreased level of consciousness, pallor, dry mucus membranes and delayed capillary refill
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What is meant by shock?
Inadequate organ perfusion and tissue oxygenation
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What is hypovolaemia?
A condition in which patients have a reduced intravascular circulatory volume
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In patients with hypovolaemia, what are recommended as first line crystalloid?
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Hartmanns or ringers lactate
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What is the difference between dehydration and hypovolaemia?
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