{"id":52586,"date":"2025-08-08T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52586\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:42:26","slug":"the-remarkable-internal-chain-reaction-that-occurs-when-an-epipen-is-deployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52586\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remarkable Internal Chain Reaction That Occurs When an EpiPen Is Deployed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Steve+Mould\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Innovative<\/a>\u00a0science vlogger and author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/stevemould\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Steve Mould<\/a> built a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epipen.com\/en\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">EpiPen<\/a> to analyze the three crucial mechanisms behind this emergency device to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=anaphylaxis\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">anaphylaxis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An EpiPen executes 3 mechanisms in quick succession when you press the tip against your thigh.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at how it works, how the needle is deployed, the strategic use of springs that use a chain reaction to move the adrenaline through the device, and how the orange tip is crucial to the administration of the life saving medicine.<\/p>\n<p>It is just one step, but under the plastic, it\u2019s actually three distinct mechanisms that trigger each other in quick succession without any additional input from you. No button pressing, no dial turning. You don\u2019t even need to keep it charged because it doesn\u2019t have a battery. though it does have a store of energy that never drains. And all of this inside a package that\u2019s barely wider than a syringe<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Innovative\u00a0science vlogger and author\u00a0Steve Mould built a giant EpiPen to analyze the three crucial mechanisms behind this emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-52586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}