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Mobile cardiac diagnostic device, 9/13

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Samsung Electronics presented details of the first peer-reviewed report of a pilot conducted with the National Health Service in Scotland, Borders General Hospital, the Scottish Ambulance Service, and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare on the use of the company’s Labgeo IB10 portable blood analyzer to diagnose cardiac patients in transit to the hospital.

Conducted in the sparsely populated Scottish Borders, the pilot sought to demonstrate the feasibility of diagnosing whether chest pain patients were suffering from a heart attack or angina using the Labgeo IB10 in ambulances to test for troponin. In a sample of more than 100 patients presenting with chest pain, the in-transit testing resulted in a mean reduction of 2.5 hours in the average time to obtaining first troponin results when compared with waiting until arrival at the hospital, enabling more effective care and potentially saving lives.

The Labgeo IB10 portable immunoassay system weighs 2.4 kg and measures one to three cardiac biomarkers on a single 500-μL whole blood aliquot in about 20 minutes. The device is available in Europe, and the company plans to expand into other markets.

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