Wireless Device May Keep Heart Failure Patients Out of HospitalNovel CardioMEMS Heart Sensor a "Grand Slam," Researchers SayAmong heart failure patients with moderate to severe disease, six months monitoring with an investigational implantable sensor that measures pulmonary artery pressure was associated with a 30 percent lower risk of ending up in the hospital for heart failure. A tiny sensor developed by the company CardioMEMS, implanted into the heart?s pulmonary artery, may change the way doctors treat heart failure and offer huge potential to save lives and money. Dr. William Abraham of Ohio State University and Dr. Philip Adamson of the Heart Failure Institute at the Oklahoma Heart Institute in Oklahoma City, reported the findings from the phase III trial of a device called the CardioMems Heart Sensor at the Heart Failure Congress in Berlin. |