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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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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.
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