You are on the sub-page "Prognosis and prophylaxis of shock". General information on the subject can be found on our shock page.
If the cause of a shock is an injury or contact with allergenic substances, prevention is of course correspondingly difficult.
however, can help prevent shock. However, the patient himself cannot contribute anything.
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Will the shock in time and in one early stage recognized and acted promptly (shock position, volume replacement, etc.) Organ damage and long-term consequences are avoided.
Every patient who has reached the stage of manifest (clearly recognizable) shock is in high risk of death and has a correspondingly poor prognosis.
In an unfavorable constellation, a shock leads to so-called multi-organ failure, i.e. the failure of vital organs and the potential death of the person concerned.
At a severe septic shock for example, the death rate is 40-60%.