Robert Scoggins

Mar 20, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Robert Scoggins |Michael McGuire |Leonard Wang |R. Barnett

Patients come into the emergency department (ED) with symptoms, not diagnoses. That’s when time is of the essence. Clinicians must quickly triage patients and establish an appropriate care pathway to obtain the best possible outcome. The time-sensitive nature of most of the patients entering the ED requires clear protocols for care, but even some of the deadliest conditions still lack the necessary data, tools, and standards to quickly diagnose and effectively treat patients.

Sep 13, 2023 | clinicallab.com | Robert Scoggins

As many as 80 percent of deaths due to sepsis could be avoided through rapid diagnosis and treatmentMore than develop sepsis each year, leading to approximately 11 million deaths across the globe. In the US, sepsis is the number one cause of hospital readmissions, and one in three people who die in a hospital had sepsis during their hospitalization. Sepsis mortality rates average around 30 percent worldwide. But they vary greatly and can exceed 50 percent in low-income countries.