Neurogenic shock is characterized by hypotension and bradycardia as its primary clinical manifestation which usually occur following an injury in the spinal cord.
Hypotension or low blood pressure is the consequence of a reduced systemic vascular resistance that resulted to blood collecting within the extremities thus the deficiency in the sympathetic tone. The injury in the spinal cord may result to the inability of the blood vessels to constrict leading to a decrease in the blood pressure as a response to the alteration in the autonomic nervous system.