Where Time = Survival
Posted by Sean on December 10, 2009
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When time = survival, anything that could streamline the process of fighting the battle against sepsis would and should be a valuable tool. Seems this new ‘Prove-it’ sepsis assay test might be a great addition.
Most tests that evaluate the possibility and the presence of a patient being ‘septic’ can take almost 24 hrs or more. This handy-dandy lil’ tool can do that job in a fraction of the time. Now of course it’s accuracy is not on the same level as the tried-and-true methods, but I think this might be something that could help deter the veracity or severity of sepsis?
The longer sepsis goes untreated the worse a patient can and will get. Sepsis is nothing to fool around with.
Medical News: New Sepsis Assay Is Fast and Accurate – in Critical Care, Sepsis from MedPage Today.
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Sean Dent said
makes you wonder what would be good argument to “not” have this?
Steve said
In the pediatric world in which I work, any test that can make a more rapid diagnosis of sepsis would be huge-I have had too many calls as a triage nurse where the kids have the purple/wine colored rash wich means that these kids are already in deep kimchi.
Sean Dent said
makes you wonder what would be good argument to “not” have this?
Steve said
In the pediatric world in which I work, any test that can make a more rapid diagnosis of sepsis would be huge-I have had too many calls as a triage nurse where the kids have the purple/wine colored rash wich means that these kids are already in deep kimchi.