Effective Technologies for Noninvasive Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure

Remote monitoring in heart failure.

Noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring in heart failure: utilization of impedance cardiography.

The annual health care cost incurred by heart failure patients is about $56 billion, two thirds of which is spent on management of acutely decompensated patients. Hemodynamic evaluation is helpful for optimization of treatment, monitoring clinical outcomes, and overall prognostication of heart failure patients, but historically could only be obtained via costly invasive procedures that carry su...

Continuous noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring in decompensated heart failure.

BACKGROUND The clinical and hemodynamic assessment at the bedside and the use of pulmonary artery catheter for the estimation of hemodynamic data have been used in decompensated heart failure. However, there are no data on the use of continuous noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring. OBJECTIVE To compare the data obtained through noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring with invasive ones in patients w...

Remote Monitoring of Vital Signs in Chronic Heart Failure Patients

The chronic heart failure (CHF) affects an ever-growing segment of population and it is among the major causes of hospitalization for elderly citizens. The actual out-of-hospital treatment model, based on periodic visits, has a low capability to detect signs of destabilization and leads to a high re-hospitalization rate. In this paper, a complete and integrated Information and Communication sys...

A meta-analysis of remote monitoring of heart failure patients.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on the outcome of chronic heart failure (HF) patients. BACKGROUND RPM via regularly scheduled structured telephone contact between patients and health care providers or electronic transfer of physiological data using remote access technology via remote external, wearable, or implantable electronic...