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Surviving Sepsis, liver transplant, and multiple hospitalizations led Robert to the moment where he had a choice. Would he rise or would he fall? He chose to rise and to create PatchD to help patients with Sepsis lead a normal life and to, hopefully, save lives. This is what Mayo Clinic says about Sepsis: “Sepsis occurs when chemicals released into the bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses throughout the body. This inflammation can trigger a cascade of changes that can damage multiple organ systems, causing them to fail. If sepsis progresses to septic shock, blood pressure drops dramatically, which may lead to death.”  PatchD is about giving patients and doctors a great tool to increase the quality of life for patients and improve the detection of sepsis.

Robert Quinn

I think he says it best with…”I am a disgustingly passionate person who believes that we each have the power to change the world if we really want to. I dream of using my technological and medical skill-sets to get the world closer to one with equal opportunity. Why should your ability to succeed be negatively impacted by anything other than your willingness to work hard and dream big. I think technology can provide an answer and I want to be a part of the change. I want to allow sick patients to live normal lives, I, after-all, completed my degrees in part from hospital, I want to empower others to do the same.” Source

Additionally, on the company website he has this to say: “I am a Liver Transplant Recipient who graduated as a bio-mechatronic engineer going in and out of hospital. Whilst in hospital, I saw first hand the pain and suffering of people around me due to in-adequate monitoring, I realised that I not only could, but had to change it”. Source

PatchD

He dreams  “of a world where every patient lives a normal life, that is why I do what I do. We use machine learning to stop sepsis, the number one cause of death in hospital patients.” That’s it in a nutshell. In the episode we get into how his technology is going to do that and why he has such a passion to help patients with Sepsis. 

Sepsis

Mayo Clinic Source : “Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection. Sepsis occurs when chemicals released into the bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses throughout the body. This inflammation can trigger a cascade of changes that can damage multiple organ systems, causing them to fail.

If sepsis progresses to septic shock, blood pressure drops dramatically, which may lead to death.

Anyone can develop sepsis, but it’s most common and most dangerous in older adults or those with weakened immune systems. Early treatment of sepsis, usually with antibiotics and large amounts of intravenous fluids, improves chances for survival.

Symptoms

Many doctors view sepsis as a three-stage syndrome, starting with sepsis and progressing through severe sepsis to septic shock. The goal is to treat sepsis during its early stage, before it becomes more dangerous.

Sepsis

To be diagnosed with sepsis, you must exhibit at least two of the following symptoms, plus a probable or confirmed infection:

• Body temperature above 101 F (38.3 C) or below 96.8 F (36 C)
• Heart rate higher than 90 beats a minute
• Respiratory rate higher than 20 breaths a minute

Severe sepsis

Your diagnosis will be upgraded to severe sepsis if you also exhibit at least one of the following signs and symptoms, which indicate an organ may be failing:

• Significantly decreased urine output
• Abrupt change in mental status
• Decrease in platelet count
• Difficulty breathing
• Abnormal heart pumping function
• Abdominal pain” Source

Links

PatchD Linkedin

PatchD Website

PatchD Contact email: getintouch@patchdmedical.com

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