[02.07.2025] Other, AnKing Step Deck/AnKingMed, ID 2953767

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Not sure about this, as shock doesn’t have to necessarily be systemic right? (i.e. shock liver)

Per my understanding, I believe that shock is generally systemic and ischemia is generally localized. And that both could lead to “inadequate organ perfusion and delivery of nutrients necessary for normal tissue and cellular function” as denoted in the card, which leads to the resulting ambiguity of the entailing cloze.

As I understand it ‘shock liver’ is used to denote the (local) effect of (global) shock, specifically on the liver, though is caused most directly by the resulting ischemia. So ‘shock liver’ refers to the effect of a specific local effect of an organ (in this case the liver) from a systemic event (shock). The term ‘ischemic hepatitis’ is sometimes used more-or-less interchangeably, from what I gather

By that metric, you might also have ‘shock kidney’ or, I don’t know, ‘shock mesentery’ which are local zoom-in reference frames for a systemic root pathology.

All-in-all not a major issue, but thought I’d raise it since the structural ambiguity of the card’s phrasing stood out to my mind. :slight_smile: