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NRSG 327: Shock: Exam Questions with Answers, Exams of Nursing

A comprehensive set of exam questions and answers related to shock, a critical medical condition. It covers various types of shock, including hypovolemic, cardiogenic, neurogenic, anaphylactic, and septic shock. The document delves into the causes, symptoms, stages, and management of each type of shock, offering valuable insights for nursing students and professionals. It also explores the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (mods) associated with shock.

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NRSG 327: SHOCK: EXAM QUESTIONS WITH THE 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
1) What is hypovolemic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Size of vascular compartment remains
unchanged but the volume of plasma decreases
2) What is absolute hypovolemia? -- Answer โœ”โœ” External loss of whole blood or
other bodily fluids
3) What is relative hypovolemia? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Pooling of blood or fluids
- Fluids shifts
- Internal bleeding
- Massive vasodilation
4) What does hypovolemic shock result in? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Decreased venous return
to the heart
- Decreased preload
- Decreased stroke volume
- Decreased CO
5) What are some S&S of hypovolemic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Decreased preload
- Decreased stroke volume
- Decreased cap refill
- Tachypnea progressing to bradypnea
- Decreased urine output
- Cool and clammy
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NRSG 327: SHOCK: EXAM QUESTIONS WITH THE 100%

CORRECT ANSWERS

  1. What is hypovolemic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Size of vascular compartment remains unchanged but the volume of plasma decreases
  2. What is absolute hypovolemia? -- Answer โœ”โœ” External loss of whole blood or other bodily fluids
  3. What is relative hypovolemia? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Pooling of blood or fluids
  • Fluids shifts
  • Internal bleeding
  • Massive vasodilation
  1. What does hypovolemic shock result in? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Decreased venous return to the heart
  • Decreased preload
  • Decreased stroke volume
  • Decreased CO
  1. What are some S&S of hypovolemic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Decreased preload
  • Decreased stroke volume
  • Decreased cap refill
  • Tachypnea progressing to bradypnea
  • Decreased urine output
  • Cool and clammy
  • Anxiety, confusion, agitation
  1. What are the different types of shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Hypovolemic shock
  • Carterm-1diogenic shock
  • Neurogenic shock
  • Anaphylactic shock
  • Septic shock
  1. What are the different categories of shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Hypovolemic shock = volume problem
  • Distributive shock = Pipe failure
  1. Who is at risk for shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Surgery
  • Comorbidities
  • Allergies
  • Elderly
  • Anything equipment invasive
  • Someone who already has an infection
  • Pediatrics and neonates
  • Trauma patients
  • Immunocompromised patients
  1. What are the stages of shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Compensated
  • Uncompensated (progressive)
  • Irreversible (refractory)
  1. What is compensated shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Shows little to no signs or symptoms
  • Still have good cardiac output
  1. What are some early missed signs and symptoms in shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Pale skin
  • Mild tachycardia, strong pulses centrally but weaker pulses peripherally
  1. What are some signs and symptoms of cardiogenic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Signs of peripheral hypo perfusion (cyanosis, pallor, cool and clammy)
  • Decreased renal blood flow results in sodium and water retention and decreased urine output
  • Tachypnea
  • Crackles, wheezes
  • Anxiety, confusion and agitation
  • May or may not have chest pain
  1. What are the effects of cardiogenic shock on hemodynamics? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Increased HR
  • Decreased pulse pressure
  • Decreased BP
  • Decreased CO
  1. What is the management for cardiogenic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Treat underlying cause
  • Improving cardiac output = optimizing 02 supply and demand
  • Fluids, Vasopressors
  1. What are some BP highering medications and what do they do? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Dopamine (increased BP, HR and contractility)
  • Norepinephrine (Increased BP)
  • Epinephrine (increases BP, HR and lungs)
  1. What medications decrease preload? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Diuretics
  2. What does dobutamine do? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Increases HR, myocardial demand and also increases contractility
  • First line drug in cardiogenic shock
  1. Up to what percentage of blood lost can patients compensate for? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 15%
  2. At what percentage of blood lost if tissue destruction irreversible? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 40%
  3. What are the effects of hypovolemic shock on hemodynamics? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Increased HR
  • Decreased pulse pressure
  • Decreased BP
  • Decreased CO
  1. What is Neurogenic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Hemodynamic consequence of injury, disease or both to the spinal cord at or above T
  • Vasomotor centre depression
  1. What happens when the vasomotor centre is depressed? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Massive vasodilation leads to a pooling of blood in the blood vessels, tissue hypo perfusion and impairment of cellular metabolism
  2. What are the clinical manifestations of neurogenic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Hypotension
  • Bradycardia
  • May be unable to regulate temperature (heat loss)
  • Initially may be warm d/t dilation but as heart dissipates at risk for hypothermia
  • Dysfunction related to level of injury
  • Bladder dysfunction
  • Decreased skin perfusion
  • Cool or warm
  • Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
  1. What is important to do in anaphylactic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Maintain potency of airway
  2. What is sepsis? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Systemic inflammatory response and documented or suspected infection
  3. What is severe sepsis? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Sepsis + Organ dysfunction
  • Lactate greater than 4
  1. What is septic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Systemic inflammatory response to a documented or suspected infection
  • Endotoxing stimulate release of cytokines, and pro inflammatory mediators resulting in damage to epithelium, vasodilation, increased capillary permeability and neutrophils
  1. What are some clinical manifestations of septic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Change in temperature
  • Decreased ejection fraction
  • Hyperventilation
  • Respiratory alkalosis progressing to acidosis
  • Hypoxemia
  • Respiratory failure
  • ARDS
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Crackles
  • Decreased urine output
  • Warm and flushed becoming cool and mottled
  1. What are the effects of septic shock on hemodynamics? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Increased HR
  • Decreased pulse pressure
  • Decreased BP
  • Decreased, increased or the same CO
  1. What is the plasma enzyme cascade? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Compliment system (membrane attacking complex)
  • Coagulation cascade (wall off the infection and keep it in a certain area)
  • Kinin system (promotes vasodilation and causes "leaky" capillaries)
  • Arachidonic acid prostaglandins (Increase vessel diameter)
  1. What are the care measures for septic shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Requires large amounts of fluid replacement
  • Overall goal is to restore perfusion
  • Antibiotics are important
  • Vasopressors
  • Contractility interventions (dobutamine)
  1. What vasopressors is the #1 and why? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Norepinephrine because it increases BP with minimal impact on HR
  2. What is the goal of vasopressor therapy? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - To achieve and maintain a MAP of at least 65mmHg
  3. What happens to sodium levels during shock? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Increases in early shock d/t increased secretion of aldosterone, causing retention
  • Decreased when excessive hypotonic fluid is administered after fluid loss
  1. What is the criteria for SIRS? -- Answer โœ”โœ” - Temperature > 38 or < 36
  • HR > 90