Veterinary Clinical Medicine-I (General and Systemic)

SEPTIC SHOCK

• Septic shock is a common complication in small animal practice and the most common cause of shock in most humans ICU. Many pathologic conditions can result in spread infection and associated Shock. The overuse of corticoids, immunosuppressive therapies, the wide spread use of IV catheters are some of the reasons that septic shock has become more familiar for Veterinary practitioners.
• Effective management requires prompt recognition of early clinical signs related to systemic inflammation: mental depression, hyper or hypo body temperature, elevated heart rate, respiratory impairment in addition to a potential source of infection.
• Shock has been defined as a critical imbalance of cellular energy production because failure in the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the cell and utilization of oxygen and nutrients by the cell. More than 90% of the energy that the cell spends is about to survive from an aggressive environment. Shock may be result from any syndrome, diseases state, or injury that leads to a critical decrease in effective blood flow to the tissues, leads to derangement in cellular metabolism and ultimately cell death.