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What is What are the immediate steps and strategies involved in the treatment and management of shock  and explain in detail?
Symptomatic and aetiological treatment must take place simultaneously. In all cases: Emergency: immediate attention to the patient. Warm the patient, lay him flat, elevate legs (except in respiratory distress, acute pulmonary oedema). Insert a peripheral IV line using a large calibre catheter (16G in adults). If no IV access, use intraosseous route. Oxygen therapy, assisted ventilation in the event of respiratory distress. Assisted ventilation and external cardiac compression in the event of cardiac arrest. Intensive monitoring: consciousness, pulse, BP, CRT, respiratory rate, hourly urinary output (insert a urinary catheter) and skin mottling. Management according to the cause