Micro-Fluidic Model and Experiments for Blood Drops on a Hyper-hydrophilic, Rapid Solidification Device, InnovaStrip, for Fast, Accurate, Cheap, Comprehensive Small Volume Blood Diagnostics using a SmartPhone App

Accurate Blood Diagnostics (BD) require 8-10 mL of blood per vial, expensive laboratories, and take days for results. Such large blood volumes lead to Hospital Acquired Anemia in 74% of patients and 100% of preemies. Hyper-hydrophilic coatings HemaDrop™ in a new handheld BD device, InnovaStrip™, yield cheap, fast, accurate BD by flattening and solidifying blood drops into Homogeneous Thin Solid Films (HTSF) in minutes without coagulation. HTSFs are reproducible unlike Dried Blood Spots. HTSFs are analyzed via hand-held X-Ray Fluorescence and Ion Beam Analysis. Both yield electrolytes, trace elements, toxic metals, and radionuclides to +/-10%. To analyze data quickly and accurately, an algorithm, Fast Accurate Blood Analysis (FABA), converts data in mg/dL, the unit for BD. InnovaStrip™ combined with FABA yields thus comprehensive BD. InnovaStrip™'s potential is significant for bringing fast, accurate, handheld, comprehensive BD to refugee camps and poor, underserved, and underprivileged areas with limited access to BD labs. In addition, rapid pathogen detection has also been developed in a parallel, handheld, inexpensive device, InnovaBug™ to be combined with InnovaStrip™.