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. 2012 Apr;5(2):167-77.
doi: 10.4103/0974-2700.96487.

Shock - A reappraisal: The holistic approach

Fabrizio Giuseppe Bonanno  1
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Shock - A reappraisal: The holistic approach

Fabrizio Giuseppe Bonanno. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2012 Apr.

Abstract

Shock as reaction to life-threatening condition needs to be reclassified in a timely and more scientific synopsis. It is not possible or beneficial any longer to avoid a holistic approach in critical illness. Semantics of critical illness has often been unfriendly in the literature and a simplification with the elimination of conceptual pleonasms and misnomers under the exclusive light of physiology and physiopathology would be advantageous. Speaking one language to describe the same phenomenon worldwide is essential for understanding; moreover, it increases focus on characterization and significance of the phenomena.

Keywords: Multiple organs dysfunction; multiple organs failure; shock.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

Figures

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Figure 1
Schematic representation of the relative difference of speed among the ‘acquired’ etiological mechanisms leading to exitus
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Figure 2
Schematic representation of circulation, microcirculation and cellular system with the ‘no-return points’
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Figure 3
Is the life-unit the existential link between external world and our biological soul and life primum movens?
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Figure 4
Classification of shock
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