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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sepsis Diagnosis"”.
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A generic pathogen capture technology for sepsis diagnosis
Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response that results the presence and persistence of microorganisms or their toxins in the bloodstream and it is diagnosed by detecting the presence of pathogens in blood. Despite improvements in modem medicine, sepsis has a high mortality rate that increases …
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Accelerated Sepsis Diagnosis by Seamless Integration of Nucleic Acid Purification and Detection
<p><bold>Background</bold> The diagnosis of sepsis is challenging because the infection can be caused by more than 50 species of pathogens that might exist in the bloodstream in very low concentrations, e.g., less than 1 colony-forming unit/ml. As a result, among the current sepsis diagnostic …
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Rapid pre-symptomatic diagnosis of sepsis by vibrational spectroscopy
Sepsis is a dysregulated host response to an infection that causes life-threatening organ dysfunction. Each year, over 30 million cases and 5 million deaths are estimated worldwide. Diagnosis of sepsis is based on non-specific clinical signs and time consuming positive identification of the …
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Variation in sepsis symptoms of hospital patients admitted from different points of origin
… cause of death in the U.S. was septicemia. Sepsis is a disease pathway that leads to death by infection of the blood and is a process that is highly time dependent. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between patients that come from different points of origin …
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Oxygen Consumption in Sepsis
<p>Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that can lead to septic shock and death. With over 300,000 annual cases (AHRQ, 2011) costing a staggering $1.5 billion (Health Care Utilization Project Brief #185), the importance of sepsis is becoming clear. However, some basic biological …
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Nursing Perspectives and Opinions on Early or Delayed Sepsis Treatment: A Mixed Methods Approach
… at least 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis. Sepsis can lead to life threatening organ dysfunction, severe hypotension, and death when severe sepsis or septic shock is involved. Sepsis is responsible for 50% of acute kidney injury (AKI), which is the most common form of organ …
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Machine Learning for Sepsis Prognosis: Prediction Models and Dissecting Electronic Health Records
Sepsis is the body's extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency. Given the heavy burden sepsis has posed on the health care system, extensive research in the area has been performed to facilitate sepsis diagnosis. Sepsis prognosis can support the assessment of the …
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A microfluidic biosensor to electrically enumerate blood cells at point-of-care for infectious disease diagnosis and management
… immuno-capture technology, we have explored the sepsis diagnosis application. Increased expression of the CD64 antigen on the neutrophils is a biomarker for early diagnosis of sepsis. However, to use our technology to count CD64 neutrophils, as a first step, using blood samples collected from …