All the patients have implantable cardiac devices. To go out this data represents the industry’s largest undergo with the remote monitoring of such devices. The LATITUDE patient management system is able to detect clinical events between a patient’s scheduled follow-up visits and then displace the clinical event data directly to the physician. Over the course of 106,000 monitoring months and out of a 15,000-patient population with an add up follow-up of seven months the system detected 948 patients with at least one event of sustained atrial arrhythmia for more than 24 hours. "Remote monitoring between regularly scheduled follow-ups may alter clinicians to observe these events sooner in their device patients which gives physicians the option to intervene earlier," said Mark A. Silver. M. D director of the Heart Failure initiate at Advocate Christ Medical bear on. Oak Lawn. IL. The LATITUDE patient management system also detected 1,516 patients who received at least one event of surprise therapy for potentially life threatening arrhythmias. "Equally important is regular monitoring of a patient's weight and daub compel which are key indicators of potential heart failure in patients," Silver said. Remote wireless charge measure and blood pressure cuffs are an optional feature of the LATITUDE system. Currently more than 60,000 patients are enrolled on the system at more than 1,300 clinics across the United States.
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