Present-Day Concepts of Shock

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THIS review of recent progress in the understanding of traumatic shock covers the period of accelerated investigation stimulated by World War II.‡ This period is notable for the many precise observations of injured men. Amplifying these observations are a host of experimental studies, some producing the kinds of injury seen clinically, and others dealing with isolated components of the clinical syndrome. This report is given largely in terms of clinical observations of shock due to injury and blood loss, sepsis and myocardial infarction. Shock primarily due to loss of sodium and water is considered better dealt with in a more . . .
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