Shock
 

Q - What are the typical clinical findings that distinguish distributive shock from other types of shock?

History of recent illness or injury that may have resulted in sepsis or SIRS; a recent respiratory illness; UTI; anaphylaxis from an iatrogenic or accidental exposure; or an adrenergic problems in the presenting patient?

Are those clinical findings or history?

Ummm history
 

After doing much thinking and some looking at my old notes from Medic school:

warm peripheries,

bounding pulses, and

tissue dysfunction despite mental status changes, oliguria, lactic acidosis.

Warm, well-perfused skin, wide pulse pressure and reduced diastolic blood pressure. Why?

Decreased SVR which leads to pooling, and decreased preload.