Table 2.
Clinical diagnoses of patients with shock admitted to Clinical Information Network hospitals
| Hypovolaemic shock treated with bolus (n = 326) n (%) |
Hypovolaemic shock not given fluid bolus (n = 256) n (%) |
Other shock (all received bolus) (n = 40) n (%) |
All shock (n = 622) n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malariaa | 106 (33) | 80 (31) | 18 (45) | 204 (33) |
| Pneumoniaa | 135 (41) | 132 (52) | 19 (48) | 285 (46) |
| HIV positive or exposeda | 5 (1.5) | 4 (1.5) | 0 | 9 (1.4) |
| Tuberculosisa | 2 (0.6) | 4 (1.6) | 1 (2.5) | 7 (1.1) |
| Meningitisa | 26 (8) | 50 (20) | 5 (13) | 81 (13) |
| Asthmaa | 2 (0.6) | 5 (2) | 0 | 7 (1.1) |
| Ricketsa | 5 (1.5) | 13 (5) | 0 | 18 (2.9) |
aCondition is the presenting comorbidity in cases of hypovolaemic shock