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Lecture about shock

dehydration

Most children with dehydration from a simple childhood illness will not get shocked, but remember we are dealing with undifferentiated patients here.

When you are dealing with these patients in the pre-hospital environment you don’t really know what you are dealing with until the situation unfolds. So the point is to understand the physiological differences between dehydration and shock and how both manifest clinically.

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Emergency and Urgent Care for Children: a Survival Guide

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