LOW CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE

with warm extremities and good (or bounding) pulses:

septic shock

neurogenic shock, eg. brainstem lesion

drug overdose

with cold extremities and poor pulses:

fluid or blood loss from any cause (hypovolaemic shock)

severe dehydration

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