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Just before anyone thinks this is some kind of Theranos-sounding nightmare: We've done point-of-care blood testing for a long time. The i-STAT from Abbott has

Just before anyone thinks this is some kind of Theranos-sounding nightmare: We've done point-of-care blood testing for a long time. The i-STAT from Abbott has been one of the gold standards for emergent testing requirements in emergency rooms and beyond. For more on the general i-STAT: https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/apoc/i-stat-system-us.html https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/a... For more on the TBI cartridge: https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/apoc/istat-tbi.html https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/a... (Can I mention it is an utter pain to link the ancient i-STATs to literally anything?)

tamiral 2y ago
saw the headline and came to say that this is some new version of Theranos... thanks for sharing this detail !
anonuser1234 2y ago
One of the biggest issues with Theranos was that they were trying to do a multitude of tests with a small amount of blood in a single automated machine. This machine isn't claiming to do more than one thing.
lionkor 2y ago
> Can I mention it is an utter pain to link the ancient i-STATs to literally anything? Its not, it uses a well specified and widely used protocol. Of course that sucks for some use cases, but as far as medical devices go, its not bad.