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Blood loss management - Coggle Diagram

- - - - FAST scan (focused abdo sonography in trauma)
      - consider x-rays of chest + pelvis
  - - - GCS
      - AVPU (Alert, responds to Voice, responds to Pain, Unresponsive)
- - - - tachypnoea
      - tachycardia
      - decreased skin turgor
      - sunken eyes + fontanelles
      - cap refill >2s
      - mottled pale cold skin
      - core-peripheral temp gap > 4 degrees
      - decreased urine output
      - BP maintained
      - diversion of blood flow from non-essential tissues to vital organs
      - reversible
    - - acidotic kussmaul breathing
      - bradycardia
      - confusion/depressed cerebral state
      - blue peripheries
      - absent urine output
      - hypotension
      - compensatory mechanisms fail
      - BP falls + lactic acidosis increases
      - may be irreversible