Patients plug into technology at home
PACEMAKERS with wireless technology are allowing heart patients to stay at home while specialists give them internet check-ups.
The DGH has introduced new equipment so consultants can access a special website for a condition check on a patient's heart and pacemaker. Problems can be found quickly and the number of unnecessary hospital visits is reduced.
East Sussex Hospitals Trust is a centre of excellence for cardiology in the South East and is the first in the region to use the new remote data technique.
Cardiology consultants Nikhil Patel, Neil Sulke, Steve Furniss, Guy Lloyd and Katherine Dickinson helped to teach implanting and imaging techniques to around 70 fellow cardiac specialists at a conference at the DGH. Two pacemakers were shown being implanted on a big screen.
Dr Patel said, "Now we are able to interrogate the pacemaker device remotely.
"If anything abnormal is going on, the data is picked up and we will be informed.
"It is convenient for the patient because they don't have to come into hospital and they do not have to be a computer whiz to be able to send the data."
Previously the scanners, which use a strong magnetic field, could not be used on patients with pacemakers unless they were removed.
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