Sector report: healthcare
It was after his grandfather died of multi-organ failure, five days after being admitted to hospital for a heart attack, that Samyakh Tukra, a PhD student at Imperial College London, started wondering if there was anything he could do to improve outcomes in intensive care units (ICUs).
“There are more than 85 million patients admitted to the ICU annually for potential organ failure, yet only up to 50% of them survive,” Tukra told ConceptionX, an accelerator for PhD students wanting…
