{"id":16770,"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/experimental-test-may-quickly-diagnose-sepsis\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:09:01","slug":"experimental-test-may-quickly-diagnose-sepsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/experimental-test-may-quickly-diagnose-sepsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Test May Quickly Diagnose Sepsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Microelectrode device analyzes a patient&#8217;s blood, provides results in as quickly as 2.5 minutes<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A blood test that can quickly diagnose dangerous sepsis infections has been developed, according to research published in the Feb. 1 issue of <i>Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental microelectrode device created by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland analyzes a patient&#8217;s blood and provides results in as quickly as 2.5 minutes. The small device tests for interleukin-6, a biomarker of sepsis. Current testing methods for sepsis can take up to 72 hours, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The implications for this are massive, and the ability to give the right antibiotic at the right time to the right patient is extraordinary,&#8221; said study author Dr. David Alcorn, of the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/19\/health\/experimental-sepsis-test-gbr-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0956566318309540\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microelectrode device analyzes a patient&#8217;s blood, provides results in as quickly as 2.5 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-16770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}