Keywords
emergency
hemorrhage
tool
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Abstract
Shock, or vascular collapse, is a very frequent clinical situation with very significant consequences for the patient, it can be the gateway to death or incapacitating consequences on quality of life if it is not corrected by the health personnel urgently. This means an urgent activation of diagnostic and therapeutic care systems. Within the medical diagnostic arsenal, we have predictive tools, that is, those that help us know the probable outcome before it happens; These allow the necessary measures to be taken before the patient's situation is even more complicated and more risky. With these ideas in mind, the shock index is devised, a tool that allows for it to be identified in the earliest stages to achieve timely interventions that do not allow the natural evolution of shock. This review presents some of the promising evidence documenting the usefulness of the shock index, without ignoring its limitations.
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