![]() High pressures in your chest because of a lung injury such as a tension pneumothorax.A large blood clot in your pulmonary artery.However, your heart muscle itself is often fine, but some other process that impairs heart performance interferes with it. ![]() With obstructive shock, there’s also poor cardiac output. This occurs most commonly after a heart attack stuns or permanently injures a large portion of your heart muscle, resulting in poor output. With cardiogenic shock, your heart is unable to meet your body’s metabolic demands due to a problem with your heart muscle itself. What is the difference between cardiogenic shock and obstructive shock?īoth are medical emergencies, but they have different causes. The shortage of oxygen this creates affects all of your organs. This obstruction can quickly lead to a huge drop in blood pressure and the amount of blood your heart is able to pump. With obstructive shock, something is obstructing or getting in the way of blood going into and out of your heart or great vessels (major blood vessels connected to your heart). With any type of shock, your entire body can’t get enough blood flow, which means it can’t get enough oxygen.
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