This simulator shows how baroreceptor reflexes, transcapillary fluid shifts, and hormonal responses interact over time to defend blood pressure after hemorrhage, and how that defense eventually collapses into decompensated shock.
Adjust the amount and rate of simulated blood loss and watch heart rate, blood pressure, and compensatory hormone activity respond in real time as the scenario moves through the four hemorrhage classes.
Sliders let you set simulated blood loss volume and bleeding rate to observe the resulting compensatory and decompensatory physiological response.
Early after significant blood loss, hematocrit can look almost normal because plasma and red cells are initially lost in the same proportion, and only later does transcapillary fluid shift dilute the blood enough to reveal the true extent of the loss.
This simulator shows how baroreceptor reflexes, transcapillary fluid shifts, and hormonal responses interact over time to defend blood pressure after hemorrhage, and how that defense eventually collapses into decompensated shock.
This simulator shows how baroreceptor reflexes, transcapillary fluid shifts, and hormonal responses interact over time to defend blood pressure after hemorrhage, and how that defense eventually collapses into decompensated shock.
Adjust the amount and rate of simulated blood loss and watch heart rate, blood pressure, and compensatory hormone activity respond in real time as the scenario moves through the four hemorrhage classes.
Early after significant blood loss, hematocrit can look almost normal because plasma and red cells are initially lost in the same proportion, and only later does transcapillary fluid shift dilute the blood enough to reveal the true extent of the loss.