A global problem

The cost of sepsis.

A time-critical medical emergency still constrained by a diagnostic process that takes too long.

By the numbers

Sepsis demands immediate, definitive intervention.

50M

Infections per year

Sepsis is a rapidly escalating, preventable medical emergency. Without immediate pathogen identification and targeted treatment, mortality risk increases every passing hour.¹

11M

Deaths per year

Sepsis is a primary driver of mortality and readmissions in U.S. hospitals. Mortality risk increases 7.6% every hour sepsis is left untreated.^{1, 2}

1 in 5

Deaths worldwide

Sepsis claims an individual life every 2.8 seconds and remains a critical, unaddressed gap in modern acute care.³

$62B

U.S. healthcare costs

As the most expensive condition treated in the U.S., its impact lingers after discharge—leaving up to 50% of survivors with long-term effects.⁴

References

Zanotti-Cavazzoni S. Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock. Yearbook of Critical Care Medicine. 2007;187–188.
Mayr FB, et al. Proportion and Cost of Unplanned 30-Day Readmissions After Sepsis Compared With Other Medical Conditions, 2017.
Global Sepsis Alliance, 2024.
Buchman TG, et al. Critical Care Medicine. 2020;48(3):302–318.

Clinical sample processing in a laboratory

The testing gap

The standard of care can take 12–72 hours.

The current standard of care frequently requires 12 to 72 hours to produce actionable data. Every passing hour compounds a patient’s risk, yet conventional workflows still depend on three slow, sequential stages.

01
Culture incubation
Blood culture bottles are monitored for bacterial growth.
02
Colony isolation
A positive culture is plated and additional growth is required.
03
Pathogen identification
Technicians harvest colonies and perform species identification.

The difficulty of rapid testing

Finding four bacteria among 5.9 billion blood components.

Bacterial concentrations can be as low as 4 CFU out of 5.9 billion components, requiring extensive incubation time to grow bacteria to meaningful densities.

All figures shown are per mL of blood.

5.91BRed blood cells

400MPlatelets

10MWhite blood cells

4Total bacteria

Our technology

Designed to cut the diagnostic timeline by up to 99%.

Centrifugal isolation is designed to enable rapid pathogen identification within 20 minutes.

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