The incidence of cardiogenic shock in community studies has not decreased significantly over time. Despite decreasing mortality rates associated with increasing utilisation of revascularisation, shock remains the leading cause of death for patients hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction (MI). Although shock often develops early after MI onset, it is typically not diagnosed on hospital pr...

There are many cause of cholinesterase deficiency, including drugs, liver disease, chronic anemia, malignant states, cardiac failure, severe acute infection, surgical shock, severe burn, collagen disease and vasculitis syndromes. Vasculitis syndromes are relatively rare, and among them, Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is even rarer. We report here on a case of a patient with CSS who underwent endo...

PeriPartum CardioMyopathy (PPCM) is a rare but potentially devastating cause of heart failure. We reported the case of a 31-year-old female who developed cardiogenic shock twelve hours post-delivery secondary to PPCM that was successfully treated with combined supportive care, including the cabergoline, levosimendan and IABP.

Vibrio hollisae is a halophilic species that was recently reclassified as Grimontia hollisae. This organism is known to cause moderate to severe cases of gastroenteritis. We report a case of an individual who suffered a more severe form of this disease, presenting with profound hypotension and acute renal failure, secondary to hypovolemic shock.

In this paper, a shock model for the effect of stress in terms of cortisol is studied. Assume that shocks arrive according to a Poisson process. Shocks are events which cause perturbation to the system, leading to its deterioration and consequent failure. The Cartisol Awakening Responds (CAR) at pre partum and post partum are compared by this model.

Hypoxic hepatitis (HH), also known as ischemic hepatitis or shock liver, is characterized by a massive, rapid rise in serum aminotransferases resulting from reduced oxygen delivery to the liver. The most common predisposing condition is cardiac failure, followed by circulatory failure as occurs in septic shock and respiratory failure. HH does, however, occur in the absence of a documented hypot...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: The main types of shock include cardiogenic, hypovolemic, distributive, and neurogenic shock. Management requires identifying correcting the underlying cause, supporting end-organ perfusion with fluid resuscitation vasoactive medications. Here we present a rare cause distributive CASE PRESENTATION: A 65-year-old man presented 2-month ...

In this paper, a statistical model is presented for decision making in repairing water pipes network. The water distribution system has been considered as a “repairable” system which is under repeating failure modes. From this, a practical model for anticipating the failure of the water pipes in repairable systems has been presented using the trend renewal process concept. In this process, the ...