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Your question is much too vague to get an accurate answer. There are many different kinds of shock and many resulting physiologic changes. Blood pressure can depend on whether the person is compensated or decompensated. It also depends on the type of shock.
Hypotension means decompensation and is a bad sign. Hypovolemic shock can have hypotension that is managed with fluid resuscitation without a great deal of complication...that is unless it is hemorrhagic. Then it can get more complicated.
You are in school....what has your research revealed to you? This site might help....Cardiovascular Critical Care Tutorials
Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B
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I'm just curious of what kind of blood pressure reading (systolic, diastolic, MAP), you might get in a patient with shock?
I know that shock is not defined in these terms, but I'm just wondering what might actually been seen in the clinical setting in a shock patient.