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It should take substantially less than 25 minutes to diagnosis sepsis by SIRS criteria (1). A standard clinical lab has been able to run a CBC that fast for dec
by killjoywashere 7y ago
It should take substantially less than 25 minutes to diagnosis sepsis by SIRS criteria (1). A standard clinical lab has been able to run a CBC that fast for decades and tell you how many of which white cells are present, hemoglobin, etc. Not sure what Il-6 is getting me...
(1) https://www.mdcalc.com/sirs-sepsis-septic-shock-criteria https://www.mdcalc.com/sirs-sepsis-septic-shock-criteria
- jcims 7y agoThis looks like it would fit onto something the size of a glucose test strip and probably cost as much to manufacture. Could be useful for triage when infrastructure is compromised or unavailable.
- killjoywashere 7y agoIf you're diagnosing sepsis under conditions where you don't have a CBC analyzer, you're looking at something like Charity Hospital after Katrina or Fukushima after the tsunami, some remote place, or a space mission. I'm all for microfluidics, don't get me wrong. But we need a library of chips on hand to make sense of the range of things that could be happening to someone. Sepsis is ... a big deal. Physician anywhere outside a major hospital sees sepsis and their single, overriding thought is "get this person to a big hospital, ASAP"