POSTS TAGGED AS sepsis

Raman Spectroscopy and Dynabeads for Pathogen Detection

Tiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
From MIT: “As a practical demonstration, [MORE]

Continuous Blood Monitoring

RT-ELISA prototype for blood monitoring
“The innovative new system has been dubbed by the researchers [at Stanford University] Real-time ELISA (RT-ELISA). [MORE]

A Microfluidics Sensor that Detects Sepsis in 25 Minutes

Microfluidics sensor for sepsis
Interleukin 6 in a blood sample indicates the body’s response to infection.  Knowing this, MIT engineers have [MORE]

Machine Learning in the ICU

Blood testing
You might say that a serious illness, as those that go to an ICU, is a kind of math [MORE]

Preventing Blood Culture Contamination

SteriPath-Gen2
Even with wiping the skin with an alcohol swab before taking a blood draw, skin bacteria can contaminate the sample [MORE]

A Hand-Held Device that Determines Sepsis in 10 Minutes

eLab Diagnostic Device
Nanomix (Emeryville, CA) is now clinically testing its point-of-care, hand held diagnostic device that can give an evaluation [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]

DARPA’s Artificial Spleen

Prototype Artifical Spleen
While the military has a special need to control sepsis, civilian mortality in the US reaches 170,000 annually, [MORE]

Sniffing Out Sepsis

Blood poisoning kills a quarter of a million people each year in the US and costs more than $20 billion [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles for Blood Cleansing

Blood Cleaner
Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed and tested antibody-coated magnetic nanoparticles that can capture several harmful [MORE]