Blood gas analysis can play an important role in the management of severe COVID-19 cases, but improper implementation can lead to inaccurate results and expose health workers to biosafety risks. This is the key message from a recent video interview with Prof Xuefeng Wang, Director of the Laboratory Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine […]
In an ideal world, every patient experiencing the vice-like grip of angina would be diagnosed swiftly. Yet many Thais who experience chest pains are reluctant to seek medical attention. Many delay a visit to the doctor, some even for as long as two days. Along with our nation’s changing dietary and lifestyle habits, it is
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Sepsis is a global killer. About 27 million people around the world develop sepsis every year, and some eight million people die from it, according to a November 2018 article in The Lancet [1]. This leaves 19 million people living with the long-term consequences of the infection. In Thailand alone, this translates to 175,000 infections with sepsis
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Identification of pathogens in a sick child is useful to understand clinical progression, guide management and prevent further transmission. Rapid diagnostic tests can also be utilised in investigation of hospital clusters of infection. Epidemiological surveillance of seasonal trends in influenza and RSV confirms that illness is important to guide preventive measures such as vaccination and isolation
Point-of-care diagnostics are now capable of providing “laboratory quality” molecular pathogen detection capabilities for the ED and outpatient settings. Successful deployment enables a significant reduction in unnecessary multiplex respiratory pathogen testing, resulting in cost savings and improvement in therapeutic turnaround time.
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The growing influence and affluence of a health-aware middle class is driving a new wave of expansion in India’s healthcare sector. People expect care when are they sick, but are now also demanding care which can prevent them getting sick. To meet this demand, healthcare systems are moving deeper into disease prevention, screening and early diagnosis.
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