HemaTechnologies manufactures the ESR Stat Plus, a medical instrument capable of performing several erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) tests at the same time in roughly five minutes. Moreover, the ESR Stat Plus achieves accurate ESR results with blood samples as small as 25 microliters.
Physicians order ESR tests, also known as a sed rate tests, to gauge the extent of inflammation within the body. This means that the sed rate test can prove useful in helping to monitor certain disorders that give rise to inflammation. Such disorders include serious autoimmune illnesses, arthritis, and even cancer. Though an abnormal sed rate test may indicate the presence of an underlying condition, it cannot diagnose such conditions. Rather, doctors order follow-up tests that can rule out or confirm specific illnesses. The test itself is very simple. Once a lab receives a blood sample from a patient, they place the sample into a thin tube. The test is a measure of how quickly blood cells collect at the bottom of the tube. The faster the cells collect at the bottom, the greater the inflammation inside the body.
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Manufactured by Hema Technologies, the ESR Stat Plus analyzer is a simple-to-use erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) device marketed to health care facilities. The ESR Stat Plus only requires a small blood sample (25 microliters), and when used correctly the results can be delivered to a doctor in approximately five minutes, improving diagnostic times. The field of diagnostics has moved beyond simply identifying a specific disease to predicting the progress of a disease, supporting drug development, and identifying patients who are likely to respond to specific treatments. Current diagnostic trends include using technology to continuously monitor certain groups, such as immobile patients and diabetics, and using saliva tests to measure the health and well-being of individuals based on specific hormone levels that may indicate changes in the immune system related to mental and physical stress. Additionally, mobile phone apps are increasingly being used to make disease diagnosis more accessible to people in developing areas, where getting to patients is challenging due to remote locations, a lack of trained health care providers, and prohibitive costs. |
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