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hypovolaemic

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Adj.1.hypovolaemic - of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood


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Most aneurysms rupture into the retroperitoneal space and patients present with the classic triad of sudden onset, severe abdominal and/or back pain, circulatory collapse due to hypovolaemic shock and a pulsatile, tender abdominal mass.
21 End-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring is important, and if insufflation is used to collapse the isolated lung, insufflation pressures should be kept below 10 to 15 mmHg, so as to avoid mediastinal compression and subsequent cardiac tamponade and possible circulatory collapse, particularly in hypovolaemic patients.
A post-mortem revealed three stab wounds to her abdomen and the cause of death was given as hypovolaemic shock, heart failure due to blood loss from the stab wounds.
 
 
 
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