Gerhard Hindricks, Milos Taborsky, Michael Glikson, Ullus Heinrich, Burghard Schumacher, Amos Katz, Johannes Brachmann, Thorsten Lewalter, Andreas Goette, Michael Block, Josef Kautzner, Stefan Sack, Daniela Husser, Christopher Piorkowski, Peter Søgaard
BACKGROUND: An increasing number of patients with heart failure receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) or cardiac resynchronisation defibrillators (CRT-Ds) with telemonitoring function. Early detection of worsening heart failure, or upstream factors predisposing to worsening heart failure, by implant-based telemonitoring might enable pre-emptive intervention and improve outcomes, but the evidence is weak. We investigated this possibility in IN-TIME, a clinical trial. METHODS: We did this randomised, controlled trial at 36 tertiary clinical centres and hospitals in Australia, Europe, and Israel...
August 16, 2014: Lancet