RE: Why BAMS is needed - globally!17 Dec 2020 15:51
If anyone fancies doing a PhD - advert for Bath.
Sepsis is “a life threatening condition that arises when the body's response to an infection injures its own tissues and organs”. Striking with equal ferocity in both the developed and developing worlds,
sepsis kills one person every few seconds.
In the UK alone, it kills more people than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined.
Unfortunately, clinical symptoms, such as raised temperature, increased pulse or breathing rate, and current laboratory diagnostics, such as white blood cell count or bacterial culture are relatively non specific and lack the sensitivity necessary for a definitive early diagnosis. There is a critical and unmet clinical need to develop diagnostic technologies capable of rapidly and accurately diagnosing sepsis.
For every hour delay in diagnosis, the risk of death increases by 6-10%.
Researchers at the Universities of Bath and Cardiff have jointly developed exciting new approaches for the detection of disease associated biomarkers. Using carefully designed synthetic recognition
systems coupled with simple, yet elegant, electrochemical sensing approaches, we have demonstrated the ability to detect biomarkers in clinical samples with excellent sensitivity and selectivity.
Is in us?