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Tuesday, 22 May 2012
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The length of capillaries in a kidney makes about 25 kilometers. The filtrational surface of a kidney reaches 1,5 square meters.
TRAUMATIC SHOCK

Traumatic shock - the general serious reaction of an organism at a massive trauma of tissues and a loss of blood.

Etiology: the serious closed and open fractures, traumas of internal organs, extensive wounds. Primary factors in development of a shock are traumas of elements of nervous system, a hemorrhage and an intoxication which conduct to hemodynamic frustration, to depression of volume of a circulating blood and a hypoxia of peripheric tissues.

Signs, current. Right after traumas arise short-term (till 5-10 mines) an erectile phase of a shock, impellent and speech exaltation, are frequent rising arterial pressure. Then the torpid phase is observed various on gravity: paleness of integuments and visible mucosas, an adynamia, frequent weak pulse, depression of arterial pressure. At the serious damages, accompanied a profuse bleeding, at absence of a medical care there can come fast mors. In some cases (at disturbance of an immobilization of extremities or renewal of a massive bleeding) the late shock (in 2-4 hours after a trauma) can develop.

Complications: a stage of an irreversible shock at overdue or irrational treatment; a fluid lungs, a brain, a cardiac standstill; an acute renal failure.

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