100K patients: Wireless-enabled ICDs halve mortality rate
By Brian Dolan
The University of Southern California’s Chief of Cardiology and Executive Director of USC’s Center for Body Computing, Dr. Leslie Saxon authored a study set to be published in the medical journal, Circulation. The study followed more than 100,000 patients across the US. who have implanted cardiac devices — cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) devices. The study examined survival rates among those patients with wireless-enabled devices and those with no wireless-enabled tracking.
The study concluded that those patients whose ICD included wireless-enabled tracking faced half (50 percent) the mortality rate than those who only received follow-up care at device clinics. MobiHealthNews had a chance to interview Dr. Saxon about the study results.
http://mobihealthnews.com/9679/100k-patients-wireless-enabled-icds-halve-mortality-rate/
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