Septic Patient Articles & Analysis
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“Having had the opportunity to bring rapid ID testing to the microbiology market for critically ill septic patients over the past few years, I recognize the growing need for affordable, rapid AST testing. With the global trajectory for antimicrobial resistance and sepsis, we need more affordable solutions that allow physicians to ensure that these ...
Sepsis was determined per Sepsis-3 criteria via a three-tiered, blinded, retrospective adjudication process consisting of objective review, site-level clinical review, and final determination by an independent committee. The study showed that patients with sepsis had significantly higher IntelliSep Index (ISI) scores than those adjudicated as not septic. In ...
The condition is the no. 1 cause of death in hospitals, taking the lives of 270,000 people every year in the U.S. alone – more than opioid overdoses, prostate cancer, and breast cancer combined.1 Mortality from sepsis increases as much as eight percent with every hour of delayed treatment, and as many as 80 percent of septic shock patients survive with ...
Data from the study, “Development and validation of a cellular host response test as an early diagnostic for sepsis,” showed that Cytovale’s test has the potential to provide clinically actionable performance in distinguishing potentially septic patients. Sepsis, a dysregulated immune (white blood cell) response to infection, is often difficult ...
The BioFire® FilmArray® Respiratory Panel 2 detects and identifies 21 targets, providing definitive results that can improve patient management year-round. When Identifying the Cause of Infection Informs Treatment. ...
” Starting in April 2018, the international sepsis impact study will evaluate the efficacy of the PSP test to help clinicians to identify sepsis earlier and better manage patients at risk of sepsis and septic shock in over 300 patients in 14 ICU sites in Switzerland, Italy, France and the UK. ...