Theory and therapy of shock: Varied fluid injections

SIDE from experimenta curiosity, A the use of maximum sahne infusions, as described in the preceding paper, * was suggested by severa considerations. With the syringe method, the animal improves visibIy with each repetition of the large injections. When death from shock has been so imminent, there is an impulse toward panicky excesses of treatment. TheoreticaIIy, it was desirabIe to try overcompensation of the shock state, aIso a hypothetica toxin (or potassium) might be diluted in the mass of ffuid and carried out in the flood of diuresis. These experiments constituted Group I in the investigation; but as the excessive fluid proved dangerous or fatal, it was natura1 to try quantitative and quahtative variations. Therefore Group II consisted of experiments with injections in reduced volume.