Tom Burke - Spotting Sepsis Early

On the latest episode of Leveraged Storytelling, I sit down with Tom Burke, CEO of Vail Scientific, one of Minnesota's most exciting emerging medtech companies. Arick and om discuss a silent healthcare crisis that most people have little awareness of: sepsis. Despite causing more than 350,000 deaths annually in the United States and contributing to more than one-third of all hospital deaths, sepsis remains one of the least understood threats in modern medicine. Early detection is critical, yet traditional diagnostic methods can take hours when minutes matter. Vail Scientific is developing breakthrough technology designed to detect sepsis in minutes through non-invasive breath analysis, potentially transforming how hospitals identify and treat one of healthcare's deadliest and most costly conditions. A fascinating conversation about innovation, entrepreneurship, and how Minnesota's medtech ecosystem continues to produce companies tackling some of the world's biggest healthcare challenges.