Institut für Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik und Messtechnik Sensorik und Messtechnik Forschungsprojekte SMT
Early adequate sepsis therapy using ion mobility spectrometry based diagnostics

Early adequate sepsis therapy using ion mobility spectrometry based diagnostics

Jahr:  2017
Förderung:  This work is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the grant 13GW0191D

Aim of this project is the development of an innovative method for rapid pathogen identification of sepsis patients by headspace analysis of standard blood cultures using gas chromatography ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS). In contrast to the current care situation this method should lead to a result after a few hours, while the analysis itself only takes a few minutes. For this purpose, we develop a dual polarity IMS with a non-radioactive ionization source being able to detect positive and negative ions simultaneously. This allows the analysis of both ion polarities with just a single GC run.