Prognosis and prophylaxis of shock

General notice

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prophylaxis

If the cause of a shock is an injury or contact with allergenic substances, prevention is of course correspondingly difficult.

• Gentle operating theater and anesthesia technology
• a high standard of hygiene in the hospital or at the doctor's
  such as
• a sufficient and timely replacement of blood during an operation with blood loss

however, can help prevent shock. However, the patient himself cannot contribute anything.

forecast

Will the shock in time and in one early stage recognized and acted promptly (shock position, volume replacement, etc.) Organ damage and long-term consequences are avoided.
Every patient who has reached the stage of manifest (clearly recognizable) shock is in high risk of death and has a correspondingly poor prognosis.
In an unfavorable constellation, a shock leads to so-called multi-organ failure, i.e. the failure of vital organs and the potential death of the person concerned.

At a severe septic shock for example, the death rate is 40-60%.