When exactly will we have a similar test for stroke? You'll have to ask your doctor how many misdiagnoses there are that are sent home and allowed to kill off many more neurons.
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/11/test-developed-rapid-diagnosis-bloodstream-infection?
A new bloodstream infection test created by Univ. of California,
Irvine (UCI) researchers can speed up diagnosis times with unprecedented
accuracy, allowing physicians to treat patients with potentially deadly
ailments more promptly and effectively.
The UCI team, led by Weian Zhao, assistant professor of
pharmaceutical sciences, developed a new technology called Integrated
Comprehensive Droplet Digital Detection. In as little as 90 mins, IC 3D
can detect bacteria in milliliters of blood with single-cell
sensitivity; no cell culture is needed.
The work appears online in Nature Communications.
“We are extremely excited about this technology because it addresses a
long-standing unmet medical need in the field,” Zhao said. “As a
platform technology, it may have many applications in detecting
extremely low-abundance biomarkers in other areas, such as cancers, HIV
and, most notably, Ebola.”
Bloodstream infections are a major cause of illness and death. In
particular, infections associated with antimicrobial-resistant pathogens
are a growing health problem in the U.S. and worldwide. According to
the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, more than 2 million
people a year globally get antibiotic-resistant blood infections, with
about 23,000 deaths. The extremely high mortality rate for blood
infections is due, in part, to the inability to rapidly diagnose and
treat patients in the early stages.
15 million people a year have strokes with 5 million dying.
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