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This sounds very promising to me, but I know almost nothing about this field. How does the cost of one of your textured catheters compare to the cost of an exi
by buss 11y ago
This sounds very promising to me, but I know almost nothing about this field.
How does the cost of one of your textured catheters compare to the cost of an existing catheter? Would the additional savings in antibiotics and deaths negate that cost?
Do you have an estimate of how many fewer infections would result from using your textured catheter? (I don't know if infections only happen if you cross some threshold on the number of bacteria.)
Do you have anything you can share with actual numbers and analysis? Has an outside lab reproduced your findings?
- jonwachob91 11y ago1. Ours does cost a few pennies more, which is a big deal for catheters. ANY increase is hurtful. HOWEVER the Affordable Healthcare Act works in our favor. Any infection that a patient develops and can connect to the hospital, regardless if it's the hospital's fault or not, has to be paid for by the hospital. This treatment can often cost tens of thousands of dollars. It's better to spend a few extra pennies now and avoid spending tens of thousands later. 2. Really god question that we aren't sure about yet. As we learn more we expect to be able to answer this. 3. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqnl3d7dalj08yo/Preliminary%20Data.docx?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/dqnl3d7dalj08yo/Preliminary%20Data... <- a quick 1.5 pager about how we did the testing. Remember these were preliminary tests. An outside lab has not tested to replicate our results, we are a little early for that, but we are actively looking for university research labs that we can do sponsored research through to help with a lot of the testing.