KROK 1 2018 – Question 182 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A victim of a traffic accident was received by the intensive care unit. The patient is in a grave condition that can be characterized as a severe pathologic process that leads to exhaustion of vital functions and puts the patient into the marginal state between life and death due to critical reduction of capillary circulation in the affected organs. The patient is in the state of:
- A. Collapse
- B. Agony
- C. Shock
- D. Coma
- E. Preagony
Hint
Match the mechanism given in the stem, a critical failure of microcirculation in organs, to the acute syndrome that is defined by that very disturbance.
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