If a wound overwhelms the clotting mechanism and leads to serious hemorrhage and drop in blood pressure, what compensations does the body have to defend cardiac output?

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Guts · Answer 1 · 2018-06-20T12:48:27+0000

To defend cardiac output (the amount of blood your heart pumps out per minute), your heart can compensate by beating faster in order to pump out more blood per beat.

If a wound overwhelms the clotting mechanism and leads to serious hemorrhage and drop in blood pressure, what compensations does the body have to defend cardiac output?

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