Search Tag: rapid diagnosis

ICU Management

Should-empiric-antibiotic-therapy-be-considered-old-fashioned

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

Health Management

Philips-launches-minicare-i-20-troponin-blood-test

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