3. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Ambroise Paré (1510) – Fluids to injured patients
• ‘Shock’ – 1743 – act of impact/ collision
• Crile (1899) – Importance of measuring BP
• Claude Bernard – Milieu intérieur
• Walter B. Cannon – Homeostasis
•Alfred Blalock (1934) – 4 categories of shock
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4. Definition
Systemic – global
phenomenon
Hypoperfusion (relative/
absolute)
Inadequate cellular
respiration
Anaerobic, dysfunction
Body responses thereof
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A systemic state of tissue hypo-perfusion, which is
inadequate for normal cellular respiration