I pilfered my solu-medrol some time ago, because if nothing else, I will be prepared with SOMETHING, and I have lots of somethings!

My wife and I went round and round about this entire subject yesterday. Neither of us can really wrap our heads around the use of GC's for shock aside from maybe an inability to get other significant drugs like some of the colloids, ie Albumin, Volv like Nut mentioned, Heta-Starch, etc. They would go a lot further in helping dogs in most cases, I believe, than the GC therapy. In human use, you only see GC's given for septic shock, and even then, it's not a regular practice.

That's something I'm trying to really determine. What's the reasoning behind using GC.

Here is an interesting link about colloids, advantages, disadvantages, etc.

Colloids