POSTS TAGGED AS point of care device

Guiding Epidural Needles

Epidural Placement Guide
The epidural space of the spine exists between the vertebrae and dura, beneath which is the arachnoid space [MORE]

POC Device for Fast Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections

Polarization Anisotropy Diagnostics
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have built a point-of-care device that can diagnose five different bacteria—the major germs [MORE]

Measuring Cardiac Troponin in 10 minutes

Philips Minicare I-20
Immediately after a heart attack, the heart muscle floods a protein, cardiac troponin I, into the blood stream [MORE]

POC Device for Hospital Acquired Infections

PAD Device
In proof-of-principle research, bioengineers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a point-of-care device that can interface with a table [MORE]

Multiplex Microfluidics Device for Low Concentration Biomarkers

Microfluidics
Quoting directly from this piece, “At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, researchers have developed a device for rapid [MORE]

Advantages of Hand-Held Nanopore Sequencers

MinION Setup
We’re seeing more and increasingly favorable reports about Oxford Nanopore’s “MinION” hand-held DNA sequencer. This piece says: “As a [MORE]

Genetic Screening via a Smartphone

 
DNA Imaging Device on Smart Phone
This piece describes a DNA imaging device, developed at UCLA, which works with a smart [MORE]

Breathalyzer for Sepsis

Joe Kremer CEO Isomark, LLC
Actually, Superman didn’t die of a bedsore; he died of sepsis resulting from a bedsore. There [MORE]

The One Minute POC Test for Anemia

Prototype of Rapid POC Anemia Test
Today, it’s only a distant memory, before 1980, of what it was like for a [MORE]

Protein Chip Microarrays

A research team from Stanford and Intel have designed what they hope will become a point-of-care proteomics array.  Like [MORE]

POC Device for Blood Clotting

Hand-Held POC Device
A UK point-of-care device maker, Microvisk Technologies (St. Asaph, Wales), has demonstrated the effectiveness of a hand-held [MORE]

Gene Testing in the Doctor’s Office

Gene Testing
Last October, Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, IL) received FDA approval for “the first nanotechnology-based microfluidics product capable of analyzing [MORE]

The Any Era in Healthcare

Increasingly consumers, service providers and doctors are turning to the internet first for real-time, up to the minute information about [MORE]