A 42-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between hemorrhagic and hypovolemic shock?
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Dr. Joseph Woodsanswered
Pathology 30 years experience
Bleeding/many causes: Hemorrhagic shock is from bleeding, usually due to a wound from trauma, which can have excessive fluid loss. Hypovolemic shock can have many causes, like not drinking, or dehydration from diarrhea, and also hemorrhage. This is usually less severe, but some examples of diarrhea can be excessive. Both can be seen on the same spectrum of shock or fluid loss with hemorrhagic more severe/urgent.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between hemorrhagic shock & hypovolemic shock?
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Dr. Mithil Gajeraanswered
Critical Care 23 years experience
No: Hypovolemia is mostly from loss of volume that include body fluid, not drinking enough and haemorragic shock is from loss of blood volume loss. You can say that haemorragic shock is a type of hypovolemic shock due to blood loss. Treatment of hypovolemic shock differ depending on etiology. If its due to fluid loss, fluid replacement is the treatment.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
How are hemorrhagic shock and hypovolemic shock different?
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Dr. Jack Rubinanswered
Nephrology and Dialysis 50 years experience
Shock: Hemorrhagic shock occurs with a loss of blood and hypovolemic shock can occur with fluid losses, from diarrhea for example, without the loss of blood. Both have low BP and are caused by a volume deficit in the vascular system. Hypovolemic shock can be treated with IV fluids to increase the bp, while hemorrhagic shock needs to have blood transfused as well to increase the BP of the patient.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
Can you please tell me how hemorrhagic shock and hypovolemic shock differ?
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Dr. Calvin Weisbergeranswered
53 years experience
Shock: Hypovolemic shock is caused by inadequate volume in the vascular system. Hemorrhagic shock is hypovolemicshock caused by bleeding.
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