RE: First covid 19 breath test authorized.15 Apr 2022 10:19
Good info. Thanks from one Roger to another.
On the issue of NHS funds being tight and thus possibly not jumping in to purchase AIHL machines...the NHS has always been strapped for cash, admittedly not on the current scale owing to the Covid crisis, but the cost of just one machine is only £5k and the tests are £80 each. I think someone posted that there are 550 NICUs in the UK. Given the saving the NHS and the UK Govt would make by having possibly 3000 fewer babies born each year with deafness - it's the cost throughout their lives for proper support needed - it seems a no brainer to me. That and the simple fact so many lives would not be so challenged make me feel it would verge on the criminal for NHS Trusts not to be able to provide these tests. It would only take one legal case to come to light in which an NHS Trust was found to be negligent by either refusing or being unable to provide something a hospital in a neighbouring County could provide that would allow a baby to be born deaf in order for the cost saving to be up in headlights. The cost of a legal case alone would dwarf the cost of several machines and possibly the entire saving the NHS would make so I just can't see this being adopted nationwide. Of course the same goes for the US.
I wonder if there are fast track applications that can be submitted for something like the AIHL machine in the US? It's not administering a drug so might hopefully take a little less time than most applications made to the FDA.
I'm surprised we haven't yet heard of even one private hospital with a neonatal unit buying in AIHL equipment. News will come though and once we hear of orders being placed the sp will turn north. If the orders come in dribs and drabs then that's also fine as it might mean we will see the end of the rabid pump and dump crew as the sp will just slowly and steadily climb rather than see another of those huge spikes. Every time we have one, and the inevitable drop afterwards, it damages long term confidence in GDR so we need to see some stability in the sp. All of this will start once we hear of some sales news.
I wonder how the Covid POC kits are getting on in Spain too. Two weeks since we were told they were 'doing surprisingly well' in Spain so I just hope we don't have to wait for months to hear anything specific.
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