Bluetooth System Helps Monitor Hearts

Summary


Heart-failure patients have the importance of monitoring their weight and blood pressure every single day drilled into them. Weight gain means fluid retention, both a sign of and danger from a failing heart. High blood pressure means the heart must work too hard.

So Larry C. Bybee gets on the scale first thing in the morning, then slips the blood-pressure cuff over his arm. But he doesn't write anything down.

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Bluetooth System Helps Monitor Hearts

The technology itself takes notes for him. Then it passes the information on so that the cardiologist who manages his care, Dr. Robert Fowles from LDS Hospital's Utah He...

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