Question

In septic shock:

a) peripheral hypothermia is associated with a good prognosis

b) the patients usually have an increased cardiac output

c) the patients usually have a depleted circulating volume

d) the causative organisms are always Gram-negative

e) antibiotics should not be given before blood culture results are available.

Answer 1

a) False;

b) True;

c) True;

d) False;

e) False