Sepsis

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Becoming a better nurses goal is to teach, motivate and

inspire. Now you may be asking yourself what is sepsis?

To explain it as simple as possible, it is a

response to an infection.

Now let's break that down.

Anyone can get an infection.

Typically, the human body can fight off infections with their

own immune system if there are enough organisms.

In other words, if they're enough germs, they could overtake

the body or if the immune system is not able

to handle the onslaught to the body from these germs.

Um, what ends up happening is the body responds to

the infection in a terrible way.

So when we are speaking about sepsis, it is our

body's response to an infection and that response.

It's not good.

So now we won't get into too much details.

That will be for another video.

This video is for general information purposes and kind of

like an introductory topic for everyone.

Sepsis, um, is a medical condition that is common talk

amongst people in healthcare.

If I were to say, Heart attack and let me

actually go back a little bit even though it's common

in the medical field, lots of people in the community

probably do not know what steps is is.

It's a very foreign term now.

If I were to say heart attack, you would have

an idea of what that is or some form of

understanding you know, you in the in, in in TV,

the movies that's often explained a bit.

In fact, in a recent survey, though, when when it

comes to sepsis, three out of four people, when asked,

did not even know what the term sepsis waas.

Now let's go a little further.

Why ISS steps is important s so we can see

here. It's the number one cost of hospitalization.

It amounts to about $62 billion annually.

Um, now that's just one portion of health care the

costs because we don't even think or consider taking into

account expenses outside of the hospital.

So when these patients are discharged, or any type of

debilitating effects afterwards, it does tend to increase the cost.

So once the patient leaves, there are more expensive to

consider. Also, these this disease can leave some with some

with significant disabilities.

As mentioned, those expenses sort of hospital are not spoken

about, so we can only assume it's obviously a lot

higher than 62 billion.

Now that's enough to make us say, Well, this is

a very, very serious business.

Sepsis is also double the cost of any other disease

when compared to anything.

So you know, if you put it if you put

sepsis next thio an M I heart attack or next

to a pneumonia, the average cost when you look at

everything together, sepsis will double the cost when compared to

all the other diseases.

Now, furthermore, it is the number one costs of readmission.

It amounts to about $3.5 billion when it comes to

people. Being readmitted to the hospital because of steps is

when you, when you are, as we say septic, your

body starts to fail, that is, your organs start to

fail. When that happens, you need advanced medical and technology

to help you survive.

Let's talk a little bit about these organs.

So if your if your lungs, for example, which is

an organ or to fail, that would require oxygen supplementation

and sometimes even life support with the machine called the

Ventilator. Um, let's say your kidneys.

That's another organ.

Let's say if they fail, you may end up needing

dialysis. So when the disease becomes advanced, it leads to

mawr issues, and these issues lead tomb or medicine and

technology, which then leads to mawr costs.

And as you can see, um, everything accumulates and the

cost accumulates.

So sometimes patients when, when it comes to readmissions, they

return with the similar infection.

Maybe when they were sent home, um, it just flares

up again.

Maybe they need to readjust your antibiotics so there's more

to it than just coming into the hospital, being treated

and then leaving.

There are other issues outside of the hospital.

That may happen.

Maybe these patients are going back to an environment that's

just very nasty, which has caused him to get septic

and come come initially for that.

So that's just a repeating, ah, whole repetitive nature of

it. When it comes to these patients, there's a huge,

huge collaborative approach with many people, not just the nurse

or doctor We talk.

We need to talk to case management to make sure

they're being sent home properly with the right tools and

things of that nature.

So I think we made a good argument as to

why it is important.

Now. You may be wanted to Nome or information.

Well, you are in luck because we are going to

give you a couple of websites you can use to

find out more.

The first website is the sepsis Alliance now Substance Alliance

and just thio.

Keep it a simple It's possible it's a organization.

So I believe this falls along the terms of nonprofit

as you can see a big donation button there, and

this was founded in 2000 and seven.

But there's vast amount of information here, Um, on tip

stuff on education, the basics, how to get involved.

There's a lot of people who have also suffered from

substance that are involved with this website, but This is

a good place if you're interested in learning a little

bit more about sepsis.

And also I love the fact that this website has

It's an organization, so it's not out to make a

profit on any any such thing.

So all this information is free and for everybody to

to use, um, the next website we're gonna talk about

is, of course, one of the main websites we look

at for just vast amount of information.

And this is the C D.

C, which is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Now, in this website, there's a lots of stuff.

For example, you're gonna ask.

You can ask what is sepsis and it'll give you

Ah ah, whole array of things.

You gonna it'll ask you who's at risk?

What are the science and symptoms?

Do I I think I have sepsis.

What should I do?

So there's boundless information, even ah little fact sheet for

you, for anybody to look into it a little bit

more. And this is also another great resource, so that

in case you are wondering and want to look into

substance little bit more, you can certainly check this website

out, and it will give you a vast amount of

information. So now what?

What's the take away from all this?

This is an informational videos.

So I think a couple of things that we can

take from this is number one.

Um, if you wanna learn more, ask help.

Healthcare provider.

Um, if you want to learn about the disease, ask

people who are in the medical field.

I mean, that doesn't mean go to the hospital, just

start asking questions.

But maybe you might know somebody who was a nurse.

Maybe you might know somebody who's a doctor or someone

who works in the hospital.

They might have some general idea and maybe you can

spur and start a conversation just by asking questions.

They might give you some pointers, some pointers, and then

this can end up leading to a discussion.

Second thing you want to take away is to just

investigate If this is something that maybe, uh, you went

through or a family member went through and might want

to Nome or take some time to learn about the

topic to websites have given to you guys sepsis alliance

as well as the centers for disease control and prevention.

So there are two main websites you can look at.

And there's a nim ence amount of information on there

and the number three just stay tuned for more.

We're gonna be given you guys plenty of information on

steps is related stuff and then also other diseases.

As for this leadership, um, leadership topics that we can

hopefully influence you motivate you and help you get through

the day.

Um, so that you are ready to take take on

whatever is throwing at you.

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Sepsis

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