Study: T2MR Technology Detects Sepsis Faster Than Blood Culture
Findings confirm that T2 Biosystems’ magnetic resonance technology for identification of bloodstream infections provides faster time to detection and shorter hospital stays.
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Speeding Diagnosis in Sepsis Care
Rapid molecular diagnostics contribute to improved patient outcomes.
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World Sepsis Day Raises Awareness of Deadly and Often Misdiagnosed Condition
The World Health Organization has declared sepsis a global health priority; 80% of sepsis deaths in hospitals could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment.
Integrated Decision Support Platform Tackles Sepsis
Wolters Kluwer will integrate its POC Advisor real-time clinical surveillance and analytics platform with the Natural Language Processing solution from Hiteks Solutions for inclusion of structured and unstructured documentation to make them immediately actionable.
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Alliance Seeks to Improve Sepsis Outcomes
A system uses real-time clinical surveillance and analytics to deliver accurate sepsis alerts and patient-specific treatment advice to clinicians at the point of care.
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POC Tests for Sepsis, Iron Deficiency, Get CE Mark
The tests for risk assessment and management of sepsis and iron deficiency will be available for sale throughout the European Union.
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Alliance Seeks to Bring Next-Generation Immunodiagnostics to Sepsis, SIRS Diagnostics
Singulex will employ the Thermo Scientific Brahms procalcitonin biomarker to develop a sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome rule-in/rule-out test for use on the Sgx Clarity system.
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Blood Test May Discriminate between Bacterial, Viral Infections
The team used publicly available patient gene expression data to pinpoint just seven human genes whose activity changes during an infection.
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Taking Aim at Sepsis
New guidelines and advanced tests have enabled earlier diagnosis and improved patient outcomes.
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PCT Antigen Supports Early Sepsis Diagnosis
The procalcitonin antigen can be used to monitor the progression of sepsis and effectiveness of treatment.
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Sepsis Diagnosis: The Path Forward
Over the past decade, the number of hospital admissions for sepsis following healthcare-associated infections and community-acquired infections has increased up to three-fold.
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AdvanDx Introduces Rapid Molecular Diagnostic Test for Sepsis
Gram-Negative QuickFISH BC assay is a 20-minute pathogen ID platform for the identification and treatment of sepsis.
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CLP Q&A: The Challenges of Diagnosing Sepsis
Patrick R. Murray, PhD, formerly a senior scientist at NIH and now with BD, outlines challenges and offers solutions for improving sepsis diagnosis and management.
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Importance of Antimicrobial Removal Systems in Blood Culture to Aid in Dx of Sepsis, Study Shows
Blood Culture Systems Comparison Study Shows BD BACTEC Plus aerobic medium provides statistically significant differences in bacterial recovery for patients on antimicrobial therapy.McKe
Read MoreUpdate: New York Reworks Sepsis Testing
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is pushing hospitals to implement better ways of identifying sepsis.
Read MoreThermo, bioMerieux Renew Partnership for Improved Detection of Sepsis Using PCT Biomarker
Procalcitonin immunoassay is sustained on VIDAS instruments.
Read MoreCepheid, Partners Receive Grant to Develop Bloodstream Bacteria Detection Methods
Cepheid has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop sample processing and amplification methods for highly-sensitive detection of bloodstream bacteria using nested polymerase chain reaction on the GeneXpert System.
Read MoreNew Sepsis Test Indentifies Over 90 Indicators for Deadly In-Hospital Disease
Seegene announced the availability of Magicplex Sepsis, a new multi-pathogen screening test capable of quick and accurate identification of over 90 leading sepsis-causing pathogens
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