London: A study found that the number of emergency hospital admissions due to cardiac arrest was reduced by half with the help of sensors implanted in the arteries of the heart.
A CardioMems monitor implanted in the heart can detect subtle fluctuations in blood pressure that could be causing health problems.
Each morning, patients with the sensor lie on a pillow with a transducer that contacts the sensor. This sensor alerts doctors to changes in the body that may later cause a problem and have serious effects on the patient.
A recently conducted trial involving 348 heart failure patients was followed for an average of 18 months.
The results of the study, published in the medical journal Lancet, showed that people who were implanted with the sensor had a 44 percent reduction in the number of hospitalizations in this condition compared to those who did not have the sensor implanted.
Unlike a heart attack (in which blood supply to the heart is suddenly cut off), there is no cure for heart failure. In this condition, the heart muscle is not able to pump blood effectively.
The most common cause of heart failure is a heart attack, which weakens the heart, but heart failure can also be caused by a heart valve, viral infection, or genetic causes.
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