Search Tag: heart failure

IT Management

Machine-learning-predicts-poor-diuretic-response-in-acute-decompensated-heart-failure

2024 07 Feb

  A new study has paved the way for a groundbreaking approach to identifying patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) who may have a poor response to diuretic therapy. Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure , the research introduces a machine learning-based phenomapping method and diuresis score...Read more

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Big-data-reducing-heart-readmissions

2015 23 Aug

University of Washington Tacoma's "big data" experts collaborate with MultiCare Health System and Microsoft to improve outcomes for hospital patients with heart disease. This collaboration has led to the creation of a tool, Risk-o-Meter, that can help predict which heart failure patients would be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after discharge....Read more

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Pa-sensor-reduces-heart-failure-hospitalisations

2014 21 Oct

A new wireless monitoring system that is implanted in the pulmonary artery can help keep patients with severe heart failure out of the hospital, according to a recent study. The CardioMEMS HF System from St. Jude Medical Inc. (St. Paul, MN, USA) is the only heart failure monitoring system approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The monitoring...Read more