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Microvascular Blood Flow Is Altered in Patients with Sepsis
Figure E1. Video-recording representative example of the sublingual microvascularization in a
healthy volunteer. Note the rich density in large and small vessels. All vessels are continuously
perfused. Physiologic data of the volunteer: temperature 36.8° C, heart rate 65 bpm, MAP 82 mm
Hg.
Figure E2. Video-recording representative example of the sublingual microvascularization in a
patient with septic shock. Note the decrease in the density of small vessels in sepsis. All large
vessels are continuously perfused but several small vessels (capillaries) are intermittently perfused
or not perfused at all. Patient’s hemodynamic data: temperature 38° C, heart rate 120 bpm, MAP 60
mm Hg, PAPM 30 mm Hg, PAOP 16 mm Hg, RAP 13 mm Hg, cardiac index 3.5 L/min.M2, pH
7.32, PaCO2 38 mm Hg, PaO2 65 mm Hg, SaO2 93%, SvO2 68%, hemoglobin 8.1 g/dL, lactate 2.9
Eq/L, dopamine 20 mcg/kg.min, norepinephrine 0.4 mcg/kg.min.
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