Arianna Cicioni
Novel impedance-based coagulation analysis device for point-of-care testing.
Rel. Danilo Demarchi, Alessandro Sanginario, Susana Fuentes Velez, Marco Pizzi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Electronic Engineering, 2022
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Blood coagulation is a very complex biological process consisting in a strict interplay among several factors which finally results in a delicate thrombohemorrhagic balance. Alterations in the evolution of the coagulation cascade are the primary cause of different dangerous pathological conditions that over the last years interested an ever increasing number of patients. The main treatment consists in the administration of different drug therapies requiring periodic monitoring, therefore, specific tests to assess blood coagulation have been developed, particularly measuring clotting time. Standard laboratory tests are time and resource consuming, both for clinicians and patients, consequently affecting the quality of life. The result is a rising need of a low-cost, fast, and portable device able to perform clotting time tests such as the prothrombin time (PT), the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and the activated clotting time (ACT).
The aim of this project is to develop a point-of-care (POC) device to analyze the coagulation cascade and its involved factors through a strongly innovative as well as promising technique: electrical transduction and impedance measurement
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