New device benefiting patients with heart failure
New device benefiting patients with heart failure
Nearly 6.5 million Americans over the 20 years old have heart failure which is a lifelong condition in which the heart can’t pump enough to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen.
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0.12 -> thanks so much health news now about six
2.58 -> and a half million Americans over the
4.38 -> age of 20 have heart failure it's a
7.08 -> lifelong condition in which the heart
8.7 -> muscle just simply can't pump enough to
11.16 -> meet the body's need for blood and
13.019 -> oxygen in the health cast today we're
14.94 -> looking though at an Innovative new
16.68 -> Option that's improving the quality of
18.66 -> life for so many patients
21.06 -> because it was fresh
23.16 -> it was only like three years old there
24.48 -> Amanda masso never had any major health
26.699 -> issues until she developed
28.38 -> pregnancy-induced cardiomyopathy in the
31.14 -> day sheep my daughter was born
32.82 -> is that they told me that my heart was
34.8 -> four sizes too big Amanda's Health
36.78 -> changed overnight
38.64 -> I went from being a regular 24 year old
43.02 -> to being deaf veteran so heart failure
48 -> is one of the most common diagnosis in
51.059 -> cardiovascular disease Dr Luanda
52.98 -> grisette director of uhealth's heart
54.96 -> failure unit has expanded the program
57.239 -> with new clinical trials and
59.1 -> Technologies to help patients this is an
61.98 -> exciting time to be a doctor who takes
64.979 -> care of patients with heart failure and
67.32 -> it's actually a pretty good time to be a
69.36 -> patient with heart failure because we
71.58 -> have a variety of treatment options
73.4 -> among them a tiny implantable device
76.14 -> called baristim part of a new class of
78.84 -> devices that work on a particular aspect
81.24 -> of cardiac dysfunction the barrel stem
84 -> in particular is the first FDA approved
88.08 -> device that actually works at the level
91.08 -> of
93.56 -> correcting the autonomic or nervous
97.86 -> system dysfunction that happens with
99.659 -> heart failure after receiving the
101.82 -> implant the first thing Amanda noticed
103.86 -> was she had volume in her voice again
105.659 -> and now she's finally able to do simple
108.18 -> things that had previously been a
110.46 -> struggle I could cross a parking lot
112.619 -> which I haven't been able to do in
115.02 -> decades and that was an improvement
119.1 -> so I'm grateful for that
122.7 -> and here's something really cool uhealth
124.619 -> is one of just a few hospitals in
126.119 -> Florida and really the entire country
127.819 -> trained to offer this new device it is
130.86 -> intended for patients with heart failure
132.66 -> Who currently have no really good other
134.879 -> treatment options as life changing
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS4lNdeROE0