Barcelona, Spain
Abbott announced initial results that suggest its innovative testing platform, known as IRIDICA (currently in development), produces results consistent with the current standard of care in just hours. Currently, the diagnosis of serious infections, such as sepsis or pneumonia, can often take several days. The data from the RApid Diagnosis of Infections in the CriticAlly IlL (RADICAL) study promises to provide new hope for critically ill patients with infections and potentially change the way infections are diagnosed around the world.
Principal investigators for RADICAL retrospectively analysed samples from more than 180 critically ill patients with suspected severe infections from the UK, France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Germany, to compare the results of Abbott’s technology to culture, the current standard of care. After reviewing the interim data set, independent physicians on an adjudication panel reported they would have prescribed a different course of treatment in more than 50 per cent of the cases evaluated.
“Every minute can count when diagnosing and treating serious infections,” study author Jean-Louis Vincent, Professor of Intensive Care, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Head of the Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, said. “The interim RADICAL results provide increasing evidence that Abbott’s platform may be used for critically ill patients with infections to quickly identify microorganisms before lab cultures can detect similar results.”
EP News Bureau – Mumbai
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