Bioimpedance-Based Heart Failure Deterioration Prediction Using a Prototype Fluid Accumulation Vest-Mobile Phone Dyad: An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recurrent heart failure (HF) events are common in patients discharged after acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). New patient-centered technologies are needed to aid in detecting HF decompensation. Transthoracic bioimpedance noninvasively measures pulmonary fluid retention.

Objective

The objectives of our study were to (1) determine whether transthoracic bioimpedance can be measured daily with a novel, noninvasive, wearable fluid accumulation vest (FAV) and transmitted using a mobile phone and (2) establish whether an automated algorithm analyzing daily thoracic bioimpedance values would predict recurrent HF events.

Methods

We prospectively enrolled patients admitted for ADHF. Participants were trained to use a FAV-mobile phone dyad and asked to transmi

SUBMITTER: Darling CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6832026 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature