Shock Indices and Risk Index: Development, Uses and Limitations

Volume 20 No 6 (2022)

Manar M. Al-Zaky, Tarek Naguib , Hesham Hafez, Ahmed S. Eldamanhory

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2022.20.6.NQ22537

Abstract

Shock index (SI) is the ratio between HR divided and SBP. It has been evaluated in many studies in shock patients or at risk of shock due to many causes: trauma, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, sepsis, hemorrhage, and ruptured ectopic pregnancy. HR and SBP were used traditionally to assess shock in these patients, but they may be normal in the compensatory stage and can be affected by many other factors such antihypertensive medications

Keywords

Shock Indices, Risk Index, Myocardial Infarction, Pulmonary Embolism, Sepsis, Hemorrhage.

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