Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.
It is where something traumatic or other reasons that causes the blood to start clotting throughout the body in the capillaries. It can cause DVT, heart attacks, strokes, etc. Your body will continue to clot until your body runs out of the clotting factors in its blood and once that happens your blood will no longer clot and any cut will not stop bleeding because of the lack of clotting factors. It is like hemophillia but is caused secondary to something else. This scenario actually is DIC, I wrote a 18 page research paper on it and had to present a scenario on it to my paramedic class to see how they would treat it. The scenario ya'll have been running through is the exact same scenario I wrote and presented. Up to 60% of all OB/GYN emergencies such as, abrutpo placentae, fetal demise with prolonged carrying of the deceased fetus; also trauma or sepsis can cause it.
When you mentioned toxic shock syndrome earlier it made me laugh because I wrote another research paper on it a couple of semesters ago.
Our papers required us to research the patho, etiology, epidemology, and prehospital treatment for it.