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Strongly agreed on the company's likely intent to integrate monitoring into US military training and deployment kits... imagine the military benefit in knowing
by sk5t 11y ago
Strongly agreed on the company's likely intent to integrate monitoring into US military training and deployment kits... imagine the military benefit in knowing every soldier's blood panel and derived data such as stress level on a near-continuous basis--that's a real force multiplier. Worth $10K/yr/man easily.
- anon4this1 11y agoMD here. The vast majority of soldiers are fit and healthy and will have completely normal labs 99% of the time. The times when they are not normal will be insignificant 99% of the time (had a few drinks last night? your GGT level will be slightly above normal briefly). This information is worth next to nothing to anyone.
- sk5t 11y agoDo soldiers remain so healthy-by-the-numbers in the field? I'm wondering if many data points would help to identify individuals on the edge of becoming unfit.
- anon4this1 11y agoOh .. and another thing. I do point of care needlestick blood testing on people every day. I check haemoglobin and blood sugar levels. When doing a needlestick test for Hb I always do it twice because these results are often spurious (especially when you "milk" blood out of the finger). The Hb/liter figure can vary by as much as 20-30% routinely. If this is the case I then do a proper venous draw to find the true result. These tests are marginally useful in screening for really low or really high values, but they are pretty much inadequate compared to a proper venous draw for clinical decision making.