ReDS Device for Heart Failure in New Albany, IN

Heart failure is a very chronic, can be difficult disease to kind of manage, but it is doable. It is manageable. Most importantly, to keep patients euvolemic or volume stable without overload or stressing the heart worse. At the heart failure clinic here at Baptist Floyd, we see patients with congestive heart failure that can be acute and chronic, coming right out of the hospital or trying to maintain and keep them at home.

Identifying congestion in the lung is done a couple of different ways. Here in the clinic specifically, I always talk to patients about how that patient's feeling. Another way is you can look at lab work and show if fluid is accumulating. But a third piece and a very key piece that is very new to the clinic within the last year is a lung measurement.

This is with our ReDS device, which is a non invasive way to measure that fluid buildup in the lung. This is a quick forty five second assessment of the right lung. It is actually looking at the pulmonary alveoli and the congestion. As it builds, we can identify early if that patient's starting to hold fluid and make an actionable plan.

The most important thing the ReDS device offers is that it helps patients identify early if they are beginning to have congestion issues. It is a key piece in helping identify that as well as helping that patient recover and stay at home out of hospital.