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Recognise shock from the whole child — physiology and classification
A bedside structured clinical encounter testing recognition of compensated shock from the whole child rather than a blood pressure number, grading severity, classifying the haemodynamic phenotype, applying the fluid-as-a-ceiling principle, recognising warm versus cold shock, early escalation to vasoactive support and retrieval, communication, safeguarding in parallel, handover and disposition.
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This is one MedVellum formative structured clinical encounter. The scoring, prompts and performance descriptions are educational feedback tools. They are not an official college station, timing, mark allocation, pass score or reproduced examination format. The encounter assesses recognition of compensated shock from the whole child, grading severity, classifying phenotype, the fluid-as-a-ceiling principle, warm versus cold shock, early escalation to vasoactive support and retrieval, communication, safeguarding in parallel, handover and disposition. [1] [6]
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- [1]Bjorklund A, Resch J, Slusher T Pediatric Shock Review Pediatrics in review, 2023.PMID 37777656
- [2]Fleming S, Thompson M, Stevens R, et al. Normal ranges of heart rate and respiratory rate in children from birth to 18 years of age: a systematic review of observational studies Lancet (London, England), 2011.PMID 21411136
- [3]Fleming S, Gill P, Jones C, et al. The Diagnostic Value of Capillary Refill Time for Detecting Serious Illness in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis PloS one, 2015.PMID 26375953
- [4]Maitland K, Kiguli S, Opoka RO, et al. Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection The New England journal of medicine, 2011.PMID 21615299
- [5]Weiss, Scott L Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children 2026 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2026.PMID 41869844
- [6]Topjian AA, Raymond TT, Atkins D, et al. Part 4: Pediatric Basic and Advanced Life Support 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Pediatrics, 2021.PMID 33087552
- [9]Davis AL, Carcillo JA, Aneja RK, et al. The American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock: Executive Summary Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2017.PMID 28723883