Pacemaker study to help heart patients avoid hospital
(World News Science)

We recently awarded funding for a study at The University of Manchester which will analyse heart patients` activity levels through their pacemakers, to determine which people are at the highest risk of frailty and help them avoid long hospital stays. The study aims to help older people living with heart disease and heart failure. By identifying predictors of illness, we hope that doctors will be able to treat patients in the community before they become acutely ill. Older heart patients with frailty have high rates of long-term and often unsuccessful hospital admissions, and helping them to recover at home could relieve pressure on the NHS. Heart monitoring devices, such as pacemakers and...