With a drop of blood, this new device will test for TBIs in 15 minutes

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19 points·thunderbong··6 comments

Just before anyone thinks this is some kind of Theranos-sounding nightmare:

We've done point-of-care blood testing for a long time. The i-STAT from Abbott has been one of the gold standards for emergent testing requirements in emergency rooms and beyond.

For more on the general i-STAT: https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/a...

For more on the TBI cartridge: https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/us/en/product-details/a...

(Can I mention it is an utter pain to link the ancient i-STATs to literally anything?)

saw the headline and came to say that this is some new version of Theranos... thanks for sharing this detail !

One of the biggest issues with Theranos was that they were trying to do a multitude of tests with a small amount of blood in a single automated machine. This machine isn't claiming to do more than one thing.

> Can I mention it is an utter pain to link the ancient i-STATs to literally anything?

Its not, it uses a well specified and widely used protocol.

Of course that sucks for some use cases, but as far as medical devices go, its not bad.

Wow, I had thought TBI's could only be diagnosed on autopsy, but I guess that's CTE which is different. Does CTE mean lingering effects from TBI's? Can TBI's if treated early enough be prevented from leading to CTE?

Elizabeth? Is that you?

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