Device that detects congestion in the lung improves heart failure outcomes
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 22:10
in Health & Medicine
In patients with heart failure, use of an investigational device that monitors the accumulation of fluid in the lungs appeared to cut heart failure-related hospitalizations by more than half, meeting the study's primary endpoint, and reduced deaths from any cause by 39 percent per year compared with standard assessment and treatment, researchers reported.