25 minutes, Produced in 2007

This DVD shows aspects of the disorder as you’ve never seen it before: from within your patient’s body. What you see will deepen your understanding of the pathophysiology of shock and will relate your nursing assessments and interventions to those internal developments.

With this DVD, you’ll learn:

• why shock causes lactic acid to accumulate in the blood, causing metabolic acidosis
• how compensatory mechanisms in cardiogenic shock can create tachycardia and abnormal heart sounds, such as a summation gallop
• how the juxtaglomerular cells in the kidneys compensate for low blood flow in shock by releasing renin, which triggers the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
• how to best restore blood volume for a patient with hypovolemic shock by administering a crystalloid solution such as normal saline
• how intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation therapy helps treat cardiogenic shock.....and much, much more.