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ICU Just Got Even More Intensive

May 17, 2008

In a story at Scientific American, Wash U's J. Perren Cobb is studying ways to use chips to clarify gene expression patterns of ICU patients, to best determine how and when to treat for ventilator-associated pneumonia. He hopes to start a clinical trial on his "immune checkup" research, and "preemptively treat the right patients, save lives, and save hospitals the $50,000 per case that ventilator-associated pneumonia can cost," says the story.

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