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Sepsis occurs when an infection like blood poisoning sparks a violent immune response in which the body attacks its own organs.
Antibiotics can control the infection if it is discovered early to avoid spreading to different parts of the body. A machine that ‘sieves’ the blood could save people sepsis infections.
The device has been created by a British scientist, it works like a dialysis, the
blood is removed – but in this case it is cleaned of dangerous microbes using magnets.
The machine is to undergo the first human clinical trials next year and is also being tested for use against blood-borne diseases such as malaria and leukaemia.
Designed to be used by intensive care units, blood is removed from veins in the patient’s arm and enters the machine, where magnetic particles are added.
These are designed to seek out and bind to the dangerous bacteria that cause sepsis as well as little floating scraps of endotoxins that causes septic cascade.
Once bonded together, they are caught by a powerful magnet and the ‘cleaned’ blood is then returned to the body.
