dengue drama in real life

Platelet determination is being run in the laboratory as of this moment. Blood samples have been taken a minute ago. If only someone would invent platelet determination that could be done at the bedside, this drama could have ended a few seconds ago. You see, we have to do platelet lab every 6hours rather than doing it every minute because it is too painful for the patient and platelet does not go down drastically to catch us napping.