📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand circulatory shock as a failure of tissue perfusion by integrating Physiology and Clinical Correlation.

🔹 Physiology

• Define circulatory shock
• Explain the physiologic causes of circulatory shock
• Explain the stages of circulatory shock
• Describe cardiogenic shock
• Describe hemorrhagic shock
• Describe neurogenic shock
• Describe anaphylactic shock
• Describe septic shock
• Explain the physiology of treatment in shock

🩺 Clinical Importance

• Correlate different types of shock with hypotension, tissue hypoperfusion and compensatory cardiovascular responses