A new mobile app can help physicians determine how severe a patient is with a coronavirus infection. Created by researchers at the NYU College of Dentistry, the application tests blood and gives scores on corona infection.
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Current clinical trials for COVID-19 test viral RNA to determine if someone has a virus infection. But it does not give information about how sick the COVID positive patient can be. The researchers say that "we want doctors to have both the information and the infrastructure necessary to protect life. So that doctors can treat the virus effectively."
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Using data from 160 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, researchers identified four biomarkers in blood tests, which are significantly higher in those patients which died from the virus. Biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), myoglobin (MAO), pralitinin (PCT), and cardiac troponin may indicate serious infection of the virus. Patients who have symptoms like acute inflammation, difficulty in breathing and heart problem. They are more likely to be corona. Researchers created a model using biomarker as well as age and gender, risk factors. They have developed a model using a type of machine learning algorithm, AI, to define COVID-19 disease patterns and estimate its severity, which can prove to be very effective in providing information on corona infection .