Individual and
Near Point of Care
Covid-19 Testing
Is Rapid Covid-19 testing closer to the community required?
Many products have been introduced to detect covid-19.
We are based in Norway. We have recently partnered with some innovative technology companies.
The so-called gold standard for covid-19 detection is a PCR based test.
It appears to offer the best sensitivity and specificity.
Challenges for speed of testing in specific situations remain, such as patients coming in for
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emergency operations
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patients coming to hospital in ambulances
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health centre waiting rooms
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accident and emergency waiting rooms
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plus many more examples.
Most systems are set up for high throughput with results available for patients within 24 - 72 hours. The systems generally used require expensive instrumentation and dedicated bioengineers are required to operate them. Speed of analysis and sample preparation can be a limitation when results are needed quickly.
Innovation comes from challenging situations.
Point of Care, Near Point of Care and portable Rapid PCR based systems are now available for covid-19 testing.
We have partnered with companies that offer systems for:
- individual PCR based testing
- near point of care
- portable systems.
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