Peter Antevy uses a blue glove to show how sepsis pokes holes in capillaries, causing fluid loss. Applying pressure stops the leak and adding saline restores volume, which resolves the problem in the demo.
Okay? So I'm going to talk to you about sepsis, okay? Sepsis. The best way to talk about sepsis, you take the blue glove, okay? This is. This is the heart and the capillaries. You see what I'm saying? This is the circulatory system here. So watch this.
You have the heart. It's got lots of fluid, lots of blood inside here. It's great. Everything's going great. But then the kid, he has the sepsis. Okay? What does the sepsis do? The sepsis, it puts a hole in the capillary. Look, See? Look at that. Oh, my goodness. All of a sudden, all the. All the blood is going away. What does the push pressure do? It stops the hole. It stops the hole. Now, you add some more saline.
No more sepsis. Thank you.
Melissa Olen MSN, FPN-C, CCRN: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Training in Schools (Project ADAM) 4/25/25
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