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FactFinder1994on Jun 11, 2022 12:08pm
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RALI-Dx importance....(Andrew Morris shares)
RALI-Dx importance....(Andrew Morris shares) Data can help the system focus its efforts on those who are truly going to become sick.
This was part of the drive to develop our RALI-Dx test for COVID, which is meant to triage patients in the emergency department who are positive for COVID-19. The test’s endpoint is the probability of intubation, and it uses IL-6 as a biomarker — rather than relying on blunter tools like known comorbidities or age and weight — to decide whether to send a patient home or focus aggressive treatment on them. As the shortage of hospital beds has become less of an acute crisis, the FDA has shifted its priorities on this particular test (though Health Canada is looking at the test under expedited review), but the response from the provider community shows that they value this kind of data being made available to them. After all, the RALI-Dx test is a derivative of our TORdx lung transplant product, with RALI-Dx’s broader application being to triage any patient in respiratory distress coming into the hospital, not just COVID positive patients.