GUADELOUPE: Telerobotic ultrasound for Heart failure screening
"Heart failure is the first cardiac emergency at the University Hospital of Guadeloupe," according to the regional health agency (ARS). By 2014, the Picasso study, conducted in the Pointe-à-Pitre hospital's emergency department, showed a re-admission rate of 37% two months after admission to acute heart failure, A death rate of 18.8% after one month, and almost 37% at 6 months. MELODY tele-echocardiography technology makes it possible to "detect people at risk" and to "diagnose" people affected, Mona Hedreville assures. According to her, "60% of hospitalizations" for cardiac problems "could be avoided" thanks to this device. "It saves transportation costs, hospitalization, time...
15 décembre, 2016
