A client is in a driving accident creating a spinal cord injury. The nurse caring for a client realizes that the client is at risk for which type of shock?
A) Anaphylactic
B) Neurogenic
C) Septic
D) Obstructive
B
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Neurogenic shock results from an insult to the vasomotor center of the medulla or to the peripheral nerves that extend from the spinal cord to the blood vessels. The tone of the sympathetic nervous system is impaired, resulting in deceased arterial vascular resistance, vasodilation, and hypotension. Anaphylactic shock has vasodilation also as a key characteristic, along with increased capillary permeability, swelling of the airway, hives, and itching. Septic shock is associated with overwhelming bacterial infections. Obstructive shock is when there is an interference of blood flow in and out of the heart.
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