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If 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 a
by killjoywashere 7y ago
If 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"