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This is the most common form of shock encountered on the labour ward. The signs of hypovolaemia are:

 Fetal heart rate abnormalities

 Increase in maternal heart rate

 Cold, pale, sweaty, cyanosed skin with delayed capillary refill

 Alteration of mental state

 Tachypnoea

 Fall in urine output

 Narrowed pulse pressure

 Hypotension (late sign)