Response to a combination of severe head injury and acute massive blood loss

Abstract

Acute experiments on dogs showed that the character of the response to a combination of craniocerebral trauma and acute blood loss depends on the order of infliction of these extremal conditions. Craniocerebral trauma inflicted in the early period of hemorrhagic shock does not significantly affect the dynamics and outcome of the underlying pathological process. Hemorrhagic shock arising after craniocerebral trauma does so as a result of a much smaller blood loss and it follows a more severe course.