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INSTANT BLOOD TEST

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To a doctor, a patient’s blood sample is a special index. Medical analysis of a blood count can help to spot various infections, diseases and even some type of cancer. Usually doctors have to wait hours and sometimes days to test a blood sample. But now even untrained medical workers can perform on-the-spot blood tests and get results in minutes, thanks to newly developed electronic instruments. Doctors devised a diagnostic system that consists of a centrifuge and an incubator for blood samples, and a reader that can diagnose the condition of the blood. The reader is a version of a microscope connected to an ultraviolet-light source. When beamed to the blood sample through filters, the light is able to detect red cells, white cells and platelets, the blood clotting component. Then the computerized sensors can automatically measure these components.

All that a medical technician is to do is look through the microscope eyepiece.

According to the developers, blood-test analysis with this system may take about 15 minutes.

Instant diagnoses are the object of recent research.

Japanese scientists designed an instrument which can detect the presence of cancer within a few minutes. A special reagent must be used. It coagulates the blood and the results of the analyses are displayed on a screen.

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   Does a patient’s blood sample help a doctor to diagnose the disease?
   
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   What can help a doctor to detect various infections, diseases and even some type of cancer?
   
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   Who can perform on-the-spot blood tests? Why is it important?
   
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   What do you think of the on-the-spot blood tests? Are they difficult to perform? Why?
   
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   Do you think that such diagnostic instruments may be the instruments of the future?
   

3. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на пред­логи:

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   The doctor was able to diagnose the disease instantly thanks to the use of modern equipment.
   
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   Dr N. could operate within two hours thanks to his assistants’ help.
   
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   According to Dr P. the patient’s condition is not a serious one at present.
   
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   According to the investigators the cell types are the same.
   

According to informed sources the situation is difficult.
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