Intensive Care Medicine

Day 5: Distributive shock

Learning outcomes:

  • The student identifies a critically ill patients with shock.
  • The student defines the shock.
  • The student explains the pathophysiology of distributive shock.
  • The student knows basic laboratory/biochemical markers of the distributive shock.
  • The student proposes a diagnostic approach to determine the etiology of the shock.
  • The student proposes the optimal initial therapeutic intervention for patients with distributive shock.
  • The student defines the sepsis and septic shock.
  • The student knows the initial steps for the sepsis treatment.
  • The student indicates blood cultures colletion before antibacterial administration.
  • The student knows possible infection sources and steps for their identification.
  • The student knows the strategy for antimicrobial administration in patients with septic shock.
  • The student correctly indicates antibiotics for the comunity and nosocomial infection.
  • The student knows the first-line treatment in patients with anaphylactic shock.

Distributive shock (vasodilatory shock) = shock with systemic vasodilation, which leads to a relative reduction of blood volume and decreased blood flow.

The types of distributive shock are septic, anaphylactic or neurogenic shock.

ATTENTION

  • for practice participation is required to fill in the ROPOT form
  • please, fill in the ROPOT form no later than midnight of the previous day