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What is Neurogenic shock is characterized by and explain in detail?
High spinal cord injury there is failure of sympathetic outflow and adequate vascular tone (neurogenic shock). The cause in sepsis is less clear but is related to the release of bacterial products (endotoxin) and the activation of cellular and humoral components of the immune system. There is maldistribution of blood flow at a microvascular level with aeriovenous shunting and dysfunction of cellular utilization of oxygen.