Failure to escape traumatic shock.

Failure to escape traumatic shock.

Dogs which had 1st learned to panel press in a harness in order to escape shock subsequently showed normal acquisition of escape/ avoidance behavior in a shuttle box. In contrast, yoked, inescapable shock in the harness produced profound interference with subsequent escape responding in the shuttle box. Initial experience with escape in the shuttle box led to enhanced panel pressing during ines...

Escape from shock versus escape from shock accompanied by a visual stimulus in rats.

Two groups of 15 rats each were trained in a shuttle box to escape foot-shock either unsignalled or presented in compound with a visual cue: darkness. The visual cue presented in shock compartment amplifies the behavioral tendency actually prevailing in the response repertory of the rat. During the 1st session the compound enhanced the species-specific flight resulting in shortening of the rat'...

Acute renal failure due to traumatic rhabdomyolysis.

Between 1990 and 1993, we studied 14 cases of acute renal failure due to prolonged muscular exercise (e.g., squat jumping, sit-ups) and blunt trauma inflicted by law enforcement personnel using sticks or leather belts. None of the patients had a prior history of myopathy, neuropathy, or renal disease. All were critically ill and required renal support in the form of dialysis. Although the morbi...

The Syndrome of Traumatic Shock.

In the middle phase of the World War i9i4--918 the Medical Research Committee instituted co-ordinated research in the problem of Shock. An Investigation Committee composed of surgeons and physiologists was formed to receive information from the armies in the field and laboratories at home, to co-ordinate the facts and to circulate resulting conclusions regarding the problem. Opportunities were ...

Respiratory Distress Syndrome of Shock and Trauma: Post-traumatic Respiratory Failure