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2018 08 May

… Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) times reduced from days to hours….   Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) is pioneering the use of the Accelerate Pheno TM system from Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc., (Accelerate Diagnostics) a leading in vitro diagnostics company, to speed up and improve the diagnostic outcome of antibiotic...Read more

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2018 08 May

In positive blood cultures, the Accelerate Pheno TM system identifies the agent causing the infection in 90 minutes and around 5 hours afterwards it provides information on the antibiotic sensitivity of the pathogen, which is 28 hours less than the current conventional system used in the La Princesa Hospital.  Two studies carried out by the centre, which...Read more

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2018 16 Mar

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2018 16 Mar

Describes an episode of sepsis in a leukaemia patient, whose treatment was early guided by using rapid diagnostics technology to identify the cause of infection. A 4-year-old patient under treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, diagnosed 6 months before, was admitted to the emergency room (ER) at midnight (00h33) due to a fever episode...Read more

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2017 22 Nov

Implementation of a sepsis code, Código Sepsis, in October 2015 at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has led to better detection and a significant reduction in mortality. The hospital is the largest in Barcelona, with more than 1,100 beds and 7,000 employees. The objectives of Código Sepsis are to increase suspicion of sepsis and...Read more

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2017 15 Sep

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. has announced the addition of Romney Humphries, PhD, D(ABMM), M(ASCP) to its executive management team as Chief Scientific Officer.   Dr. Romney Humphries comes to Accelerate from UCLA Medical Center where she was the Section Chief for Clinical Microbiology and the Assistant Clinical Professor of the Department of Pathology...Read more

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2017 30 May

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. has announced that new data from 11 healthcare institutions covering more than 1,200 samples will be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology – ASM Microbe in New Orleans, LA. The data comes from external studies that evaluated the potential clinical and workflow benefits of the...Read more

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Accelerate-diagnostics-announces-closing-of-79-3-million-upsized-offering

2017 15 May

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 2,750,000 shares of its common stock, upsized from the original share offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock, at a previously disclosed public offering price of $28.85 per share. The gross proceeds to Accelerate Diagnostics from the...Read more

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2017 03 May

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. has announced preliminary financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2017 including signed customer evaluation contracts covering 169 instruments, 22 additional instruments converted into revenue generating placements, and revenue growth exceeding 325% of the same period in the prior year. Net sales for the first...Read more