Roche's Elecsys IL-6 Test Receives the US FDA's EUA to Identify Patients at High Risk of Severe Inflammatory Response with COVID-19
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- The US FDA has issued a EUA for the Elecsys IL-6 test which measures levels of the biomarker IL-6 and can be used to identify patients with confirmed COVID-19 disease with a high risk of intubation with mechanical ventilation
- The test allows the physician to decide early if a patient with confirmed COVID-19 illness requires mechanical ventilation
- The test will be available in the countries accepting CE mark and will run on Roche’s Cobas e analyzers- widely available across the globe. These fully automated systems can provide test results in ~18 minutes- with a test throughput of up to 300 tests/hour- depending on the analyzer
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