Re:Paper Centrifuge
by the_watcher on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:11PM
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If you lived somewhere in which neither were available, you'd want the one that could actually be delivered in time to make an impact.
Re:Paper Centrifuge
by witty_username on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:40AM
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> How would most of us feel if we came into an office for a blood draw and saw this toy?
"I might be dying of malaria; I don't care"
Re:Paper Centrifuge
by MaulingMonkey on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:28PM
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> How would most of us feel if we came into an office for a blood draw and saw this toy?
Oh, good, I don't have to reschedule this appointment just because a firmware update took out their centrifuges. Eh? There's been a mass outbreak and the centrifuges are just busy?
Frantic centrifuging
but lets not kid ourselves that this is some kind of solution that those people deserve. its an interesting student project, sure, if all equipment fails - there is a way to get your hematocrit count manually.
How would most of us feel if we came into an office for a blood draw and saw this toy? At the same time when there are machines widely available that will do complete CBC and other panels of blood tests on a single vacutainer tube in under 3 minutes?