Topic summary
Hypotensive
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hypotension.
Treatment
Hypotensive shock treatment always follows the following four steps. Outcomes, in terms of mortality, are directly linked to the speed at which hypotension is corrected. Still-debated methods are in parentheses, as are benchmarks for evaluating progress in correcting hypotension. A study on septic shock provided the delineation of these general principles. However, since it focuses on hypotension due to infection, it does not apply to all forms of severe hypotension.