This technology is aimed at getting better at diagnosing and treating the potentially deadly infection known as sepsis.
Every hour that goes by without a diagnosis or the right treatments, makes it more deadly.
"Right now when a patient has sepsis we send samples for culture and that could take days to come back," said Monaghan.Now, they have new technology, known as QIAcuityDx.Instead of days, it takes about four hours. "In sepsis we try to give antibiotics that cover most things, but there's still patients that either they have a bacteria that's not common in our area, or a bacteria that has resistance that we don't see often and those are the patients that really would benefit the most from this," said Monaghan, who said this technology is like a PCR, the test used to diagnose COVID.
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