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Fixed Volume or Fixed Pressure: A Murine Model of Hemorrhagic Shock
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2011
The Hemorrhagic Shock model has been a reliable and reproducible resource facilitating the identification and understanding of signaling cascades associated with inflammation and end-organ damage after trauma. This article provides a step-by-step description of surgical and mechanical aspects associated with the Hemorrhagic Shock experimental procedure in mice.
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Uncontrolled Hemorrhagic Shock Modeled via Liver Laceration in Mice with Real Time Hemodynamic Monitoring
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2017
Uncontrolled hemorrhage, an important cause of mortality among trauma patients, can be modeled using a standard liver laceration in a murine model. This model results in consistent blood loss, survival, and allows for testing hemostatic agents. This article provides the step-by-step process to perform this valuable model.
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Developing a Clinically Relevant Hemorrhagic Shock Model in Rats
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2024
Hemorrhagic shock kills 1.9 million people worldwide every year. Small animals are frequently used as hemorrhagic shock models but are associated with issues of standardization, reproducibility, and clinical significance, thus limiting their relevance. This article describes developing a new clinically relevant hemorrhagic shock model in rats.
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Integrated Compensatory Responses in a Human Model of Hemorrhage
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2016
The purpose of this protocol is to demonstrate the techniques for measuring compensatory responses to reduced central blood volume using lower body negative pressure as a noninvasive experimental model of human hemorrhage which can be used to quantify the total integration of compensatory mechanisms to blood volume deficit in humans.
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Description of a Swine Infant Model of Volume-Controlled Hemorrhagic Shock
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2023
This article aims to provide researchers with a detailed and accessible guide to set up an infant porcine model of hemorrhagic shock.
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As blood loss increases, circulating volume falls, reducing venous return, the amount of blood returning to the heart. Cardiac output then declines, limiting systemic circulation and oxygen delivery to tissues. Continued oxygen deficiency promotes progressive cellular dysfunction, allowing researchers to examine how impaired circulation develops into broader tissue injury.
Standardizing the amount of blood loss, the timing of experimental events, and the conditions used for resuscitation makes results more comparable between groups. This consistency helps researchers distinguish treatment effects from differences in shock severity or experimental timing. It also supports more reliable comparisons of fluids, blood products, and pharmacological interventions.
The model supports analysis of inflammatory responses, organ responses, and tissue injury that follow inadequate oxygen delivery. These outcomes extend the investigation beyond blood pressure or circulation alone, helping researchers study how severe blood loss affects cellular function and organs. Such information contributes to a broader understanding of shock pathophysiology and treatment effects.
Both approaches can produce the blood-volume reduction needed to study hemorrhagic shock, but they represent different ways of establishing the experimental injury. Blood withdrawal provides a defined method for reducing circulating volume, whereas induced bleeding reproduces blood loss through a bleeding process. The selected approach can therefore be matched to the model’s research objective and control requirements.
A typical experimental sequence establishes controlled blood loss or bleeding, maintains defined timing conditions, and then evaluates the response to resuscitation or treatment. Investigators may compare untreated shock with fluids, blood products, or pharmacological therapies. Standardized procedures allow subsequent findings on circulation, inflammation, organ responses, and tissue injury to be interpreted consistently.
These models can be used to compare fluid resuscitation, blood products, and pharmacological treatments. Researchers assess how each intervention affects the consequences of severe blood loss, including impaired circulation, tissue injury, inflammatory responses, and organ responses. Because blood loss and resuscitation conditions can be standardized, the model supports controlled comparisons among candidate treatment strategies.
Hemorrhagic shock models provide a controlled setting for examining physiological consequences of severe blood loss and testing strategies intended for trauma and emergency care. Findings can clarify shock pathophysiology, characterize inflammatory and organ responses, and compare resuscitation approaches. This research context helps guide development of treatments for situations in which rapid blood loss threatens circulation and tissue function.