Every year 11 million people worldwide die of sepsis and 1.3 million of these deaths are attributable to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. For clinicians to rapidly optimize therapy and improve patient care, fast and accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results and interpretation are critical. In addition, fast AST can enable antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs which has the potential to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR), identified as a global threat by WHO.

Prenosis’ Sepsis Immunoscore software analyzes 22 parameters such as respiratory rate and blood pressure to assess the likelihood that a patient will develop sepsis within 24 hours. Companies including Epic Systems, a leading provider of electronic health records, have developed software for assessing sepsis risk, but Prenosis broke new ground with its recent de novo authorization.