Search Tag: rapid diagnosis
2018 26 Mar
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommends starting empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics in the initial management of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock (Rhodes et al. 2017). As a consequence, many patients receive unnecessary antibiotics, exposing them to adverse events, while others might be undertreated in spite of broad-spectrum therapy...Read more
2016 25 Aug
For Rapid Diagnosis of Heart Attack at the Point of Care Chest pain patients presenting at the emergency department are set to benefit from a major development by Royal Philips. The company has CE marked its cardiac troponin I (cTnI) blood test on the Philips Minicare I-20 handheld device. Current guidelines for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI)...Read more