Sepsis Treatment Articles & Analysis
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Marking “World Sepsis Day”, The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) announces the spin-off of a new company, Sepset Biosciences Inc. The company is developing a novel rapid diagnostic test that will enable healthcare professionals to provide earlier and more targeted treatment of sepsis – a global healthcare problem ...
Sepsis is the body’s over active and toxic response to an infection that causes hospitalization of more than 18 million people around the world every year, including 30,000 Canadians Declared a Global Health Priority by the World Health Organization in 2017 80% of sepsis deaths in hospitals could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and ...
We believe that patients with sepsis are too variable for a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to therapy and have shown that identifying immune subtypes of sepsis may allow for a precision approach to treatment,” said Inflammatix CEO and Co-Founder Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD. ...
Speed is critical in diagnosing infections and sepsis. Each hour delay in the appropriate treatment of sepsis increases the chances of death. ...
The study’s primary endpoint is a comparison to sepsis as adjudicated by an independent panel of physicians, the gold standard for sepsis determination. ...
Time is also critical, since for every hour that treatment is delayed, the risk of mortality increases by as much as eight percent3. ...
Compared to standard of care, on average, the HostDx Sepsis test arm showed a 0.80 day reduction in hospital ward length of stay (a 36.7% decrease), 1.49 reduction in days of antibiotic treatment (a 29.5% decrease), and a 1.67% decrease in 30-day mortality rate (a 13.64% decrease). Average cost savings were estimated at $1,974 per patient tested and nearly $2 ...
Delivering on this strategy, Abionic is about to launch a multinational sepsis impact study of it’s Pancreatic Stone Protein (PSP) test for sepsis risk assessment and management, the only device worldwide that provides results showing an indication of sepsis within 5 minutes. ...