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In Clinical Lab Products, Silvia Cermelli, PhD, and Prashant Wani, PhD say “The delay in sepsis diagnosis not only increases the risk of dying by as much as 8% every hour, but misdiagnosis leads to unnecessary use of strong antibiotic therapies causing health-related burdens on patients and economic burdens on healthcare systems.” Source: Clinical Lab…

This week we will discuss a new rapid response test for Sepsis with one of the developers, Richard Brandon.

Sepsis describes a syndrome that occurs when severe infection results in critical illness and affects 750,000 Americans annually. Sepsis occurs when a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection causes a significant response from the body’s immune system, causing a high heart rate, fever, or fast breathing. Severe sepsis develops when the infection causes organ damage. Septic shock is the most severe form in which the infection causes low blood pressure, resulting in damage to multiple organs. About three in every 10 patients with severe sepsis, and half of those with septic shock, die in the hospital.

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  From the Slice of Healthcare podcast notes: What you’ll get out of this episode: Richard’s background Overview of Immunexpress The impact of a lack of reliable sepsis diagnostics SeptiCyte technology What’s next?

A sepsis thought leadership article from Richard Brandon PhD, CTO at Immunexpress has just been published in IDTransmission. Sepsis takes a heavy toll on society, causing millions of fatalities worldwide per year and costing upwards of US$50 billion yearly in the US alone. Sepsis can develop from viral, bacterial, and even fungal infections, but bacterial…

From the article Better Health Care Tests, Faster, by Andy Oram, posted on Healthcare IT Today More Accurate Detection of Sepsis Sepsis is one of the most dreaded hospital-spawned conditions: It’s common and can quickly be fatal. According to Dr. Rolland Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress, a sepsis diagnosis often takes 24 hours—far too long for…

Why Better Sepsis Diagnosis Results in Better Outcomes From the CLP article by By Silvia Cermelli, PhD, and Prashant Wani, PhD: Making a Breakthrough in Rapid Sepsis Diagnosis Immunexpress’s SeptiCyte RAPID measures host response to differentiate sepsis from non-infectious systemic inflammation (i.e., SIRS). It is an FDA cleared test for this purpose and has a…

From the article in Infection Control Today SeptiCyte RAPID test Sepsis is an overwhelming immune response to infection that can be life-threatening. Immunexpress’ SeptiCyte RAPID test is meant to ensure the timely and accurate diagnosis of sepsis, which is critical to allow clinicians to rapidly make correct treatment decisions that can improve prognoses and save…