The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
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1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 5 - The Shock Indices
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Shock is not just about BP. In fact, in adults in hemorrhagic shock, we typically need to lose at least 1.5L of blood before BP changes, which is stage III shock. In kids? That can vary but is much more on the occult side. You can be in shock with severe anemia and have no blood pressure change. So how do we better evaluate our patients for shock??? Enter systolic and diastolic shock indices, as well as the reverse shock index. Join me and find out how easy this is to apply to medical and trauma patients and how quickly it can pick up on hidden shock when the other vitals don't necessarily scream at you.
