2024-03-23 17:03:18
(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 22 – An implantable defibrillator made it possible to discover an acute heart attack in a patient at risk of fatal arrhythmias and to ‘warn’ the cardiologists of the control center of the Gemelli Polyclinic who immediately sent the patient to the hospital unsuspecting patient, without specific symptoms, to save his life with an angioplasty. This is Mario’s story, told by his cardiologists in British Medical Journal Case Reports.
“We have great expectations on the new opportunities offered by remote patient control systems – comments Professor Francesco Burzotta, director of the Cardiology Unit of Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS and Associate of Cardiology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart -. For high flow of patients like ours, being able to follow them even remotely allows us to avoid many useless ‘check-up’ outpatient visits, saving patients from travel and lost working days and at the same time shortening waiting times for other patients who instead need of outpatient or hospitalization assessments. With remote monitoring we are effectively increasing our therapeutic potential and offering better assistance to our patients.” (HANDLE).
2024-03-23 17:03:18