A shock can be an impact or a concussion.
Shock is a term that is not part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ). The concept, which comes from the English language, can be understood as “shock” and is frequently used in the field of medicine .
In this way, we can talk about septic shock . It is a serious condition that a person suffers from when they have hypotension for a prolonged period and suffer from oxygen deficiency as a result of sepsis . Septic shock can cause multiple organ failure that leads to the death of the patient .
Hemorrhagic shock , on the other hand, occurs when the level of blood circulating through the body drops to a point where the heart can no longer pump the amount of blood that the body requires to function. In this way, the cells do not receive the blood flow they need and the organs begin to fail.
Electric shock as therapy
Electroshock therapy , also known as electroshock , involves applying electricity to a patient as part of psychiatric treatment. Due to its side effects and risks, electroshock is only used in certain cases of schizophrenia, catatonia or acute depression, when the person does not respond to other types of treatments .
This concept is also known as shock therapy or shocks , and is applied in mental health cases that cannot be resolved using the most accepted methods. It is important to note that not all health professionals are in favor of this path to try to cure a disease, partly due to the failed cases that have been reported throughout history, with serious consequences due to poor application.
Shock therapy involves applying electricity to a person as part of psychiatric treatment.
The consequences
It all begins when the patient presents a condition of a certain severity, which seems to resist the most modern and less risky treatments. Through a controlled electrical shock it is possible to induce a particular physiological state that gives rise to the change that the patient needs. Simply put, it should never be an initial resource, but rather the one used when no other has given the desired results.
Although acute depression is one of the first disorders on the list of problems that can be treated through shock therapy, we should not leave aside the phobias that are generally associated with schizophrenia and bipolarity. The state induced by the electric shock is clearly artificial, although it is classified as a seizure; In fact, there is talk of electroconvulsive therapy , a treatment that may seem too dangerous but to which many people undergo quite frequently, such as once a month.
One of the reasons for the great controversy surrounding this therapy is that the first psychiatrists to administer it made serious mistakes and left many patients in deplorable states, with cognitive losses that were impossible to repair or even in a vegetative state. Although history taints this treatment with so much negativity, scientific advances promise a much lower degree of risk and that is why so many people continue to resort to it.
In more technical terms, shock therapy used in the field of psychiatry produces certain changes in the neurochemistry of the brain to reverse the symptoms of some diseases that are very difficult to treat by other means. It requires the work of an anesthetist and several nurses in addition to the doctor, so that the patient is constantly under control.
Shock as impact or commotion
The notion of shock is also used as a synonym for impact or commotion .
For example: “I'm in shock: the fifth-floor neighbor committed suicide by jumping into the void from his bedroom window,” “The president's resignation left the population in shock,” “Being world champion was a shock.”