A patient presents to the ED with the chief complaint of falling off of a horse. The HCP suspects a spinal cord injury. You know this puts the patient at risk of neurogenic shock. What is one of the processes occurring in neurogenic shock?

There is massive vasodilation without compensation because sympathetic nervous system vasoconstrictor tone is lost.

Patient has an infection that may be progressing to the blood.

Baroreceptors are compensating by increasing systemic vascular resistance.

There is relative hypovolemia and absolute hypovolemia occurring.