Alarms are sounding. Your patient's vital signs are crashing. Everyone in the room is looking at you, waiting for a plan. When your patient is in shock, you can panic, or you can fall back on a simple, structured plan. This session gives the audience a straightforward plan for diagnosing and managing undifferentiated shock, tailored specifically for clinicians who do not encounter patients in shock on a daily basis.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe clinical findings associated with circulatory shock
• Differentiate the features of high cardiac output and low cardiac output shock states
• Outline an approach to the early diagnosis and management of undifferentiated shock