Temple Health using paper-clip sized monitor to help prevent hospital stays after heart failure

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Temple Health using paper-clip sized monitor to help prevent hospital stays after heart failure
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CardioMEMS is being lauded as a game-changer in heart failure care. The paper-clip-sized monitor detects fluid buildups in the pulmonary artery before symptoms appear, enabling medication adjustments that can keep patients out of the hospital.

A rising number of Americans have heart failure leading to hospital stays. With a tiny implantable device, many patients can have a better daily life.A rising number of Americans have heart failure, making well over a million hospital visits a year.

"I could throw a loveseat on my shoulder and walk down the street with it. So i didn't think anything was wrong," Robinson says. "Heart failure patients are very fragile. They can go from one day feeling absolutely fine, and then all of a sudden, they're really short of breath," says Linda Ruppert, the Heart Failure Program coordinator at Temple Health's Heart and Vascular Institute.Daily weights, heart rate and blood pressure checks help."These are the little wing ends," says Ruppert holding up the tiny device.

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