Telemonitoring for chronic heart failure patients
Published
07 March 2011
| Article by Excerpta Medica
Telemonitoring for chronic heart failure patients
Two important papers on telemonitoring in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have been published in the past few months, providing new information on the potential application and benefits of such projects.
First, specialists from centers in Germany summarized the experiences and findings from seven different CHF telemonitoring projects in the country. These primarily regional projects, some of which remain ongoing, involve a total of 7,720 patients with CHF. The patient breakdown by disease severity (according to the New York Heart Association staging system) is 14.5% at stage I, 51.1% at stage II, 26.3% at stage III, and 6.6% at stage IV, and the typical variables being monitored include heart rate, ECG, blood pressure and/or body weight.
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