Remote monitoring of chronic heart failure patients: invasive versus non-invasive tools for optimising patient management.

ABSTRACT: Exacerbations of chronic heart failure (HF) with the necessity for hospitalisation impact hospital resources significantly. Despite all of the achievements in medical management and non-pharmacological therapy that improve the outcome in HF, new strategies are needed to prevent HF-related hospitalisations by keeping stable HF patients out of the hospital and focusing resources on unstable HF patients. Remote monitoring of these patients could provide the physicians with an additional tool to intervene adequately and promptly. Results of telemonitoring to date are inconsistent, especially those of telemonitoring with traditional non-haemodynamic parameters. Recently, the CardioMEMS device (Abbott Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA), an implantable haemodynamic remote monitoring sensor, has shown promis

SUBMITTER: Veenis JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6940410 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature