Peezy Midstream
Introducing diagnostic precision, infection control and patient safety for women everywhere.
Dr Vincent Forte on why he invented Peezy Midstream here
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Despite being a leading source of bacterial bloodstream infections, UTIs remain a chronically neglected area of infectious diseases.
As a condition responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, sepsis is the final common pathway to death from most infectious diseases. It is intrinsically interlinked with antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and lack of diagnostic accuracy hampers efforts not only to treat sepsis but also to deliver responsible antimicrobial stewardship. With between 15 and 20% of cases in high income countries being caused by urinary tract infection, and with resistance to first-line treatment among the most common urinary pathogens running as high as 50% in some regions, any product which improves diagnostic accuracy will not only improve outcomes for individual patients but is also likely to help us counter the threat of AMR.
Gold Standard
Midstream urine is the gold standard specimen for successful and accurate analysis for accurate diagnosis and treatment with a targeted antibiotic. It is recommended in all primary care guidelines. Yet there is no protocol for its collection.
Increased Accuracy
Failure rates of conventional urine collection are between 15% and 30% are common. Peezy Midstream is shown to reduce contamination to as low as 0% in a real-world Primary Care GP trial.
Pioneer of Womens' Health
Between 34-60% of women receive empirical broad spectrum prescribing before diagnosis has taken place. This means they may take unnecessary antibiotics – especially problematic when pregnant.
Unreliable urine collection fails women the world over; the prescribing of broad-spectrum antibiotics fuels the global rise of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and is a major factor in cases of Sepsis.