Effectively Treat Aseptic Meningitis and Septic Patients with Rapid Turnaround Time for Different Viruses and Bacteria at the Patient’s Side
Aseptic Meningitis and Meningitis Septic are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions, and they can be related. Meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, while sepsis is a life-threatening illness caused by the body's overwhelming response to an infection. Some of the germs that cause meningitis, particularly bacterial meningitis, can also cause sepsis
Symptoms of Aseptic Meningitis and Meningitis Septic
Aseptic Meningitis and Meningitis Septic can begin in different parts of the body and can have many different symptoms. In many cases, the first symptoms can include rapid breathing and change in mental status or confusion 1,2
Turnaround Time
Did you know?
- Mortality from aseptic meningitis and meningitis septic increase 8% for every hour that treatment is delayed.3
- As many as 80% of aseptic meningitis and meningitis septic deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment.3
The surviving aseptic meningitis and meningitis septic Bundle4 suggests that detection of viruses and bacteria must be available with rapid turnaround time—within minutes—to effectively treat severely aseptic meningitis and meningitis septic patients.
Using TS-MED, the emergency responders are able to share symptoms with the hospital ahead of time, and the clinician recommended running specific virus and bacteria test. They could do this with the TS-MED, and report results back to the hospital before arriving so that hospital staff could prepare to treat patients.
“With the help of rapid diagnosis this really helps clinical care in hospital or back at home you’ll get the right treatment for the specific type of encephalitis or neurological conditions, this really
helps patients recover optimally from their illness. Late diagnosis lead to patients deficits such as cognitive deficits including memory problems, seizures, and fatigue. The journey of a patient with
encephalitis can sometimes take months or even many years.”
Sarosh Irani – Professor of Neurological and Neuroscience at Oxford University
1 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/meningits
2 https://www.meningitis.org/ Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock. Kumar A, et al. June 2006.
3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16625125 SSC Hour-1 Bundle. Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
4 http://www.survivingsepsis.org/Bundles/Pages/default.aspx