Applications of the Multisensor HeartLogic Heart Failure Monitoring Algorithm During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Ugochukwu O Egolum; Kishan Parikh; Carolyn Lekavich; Jedrek Wosik; Camille Frazier-Mills; Marat Fudim

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.09.035

Applications of the Multisensor HeartLogic Heart Failure Monitoring Algorithm During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

JACC Case Rep. 2020 Nov 18;2(14):2265-2269. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.09.035. Epub 2020 Oct 12.

Authors

Ugochukwu O Egolum¹, Kishan Parikh², Carolyn Lekavich², Jedrek Wosik², Camille Frazier-Mills², Marat Fudim²

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Heart Failure Section, The Heart Center of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia.
² Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

Abstract

In the COVID-19 era, the heart failure community has witnessed an unprecedented reduction in heart failure-related patient visits and hospitalizations. Social distancing measures present a dilemma for patients with heart failure who require frequent surveillance of volume status and vital signs to minimize heart failure-related symptoms and hospitalizations. With the rise of telemedicine comes an increased focus on remote monitoring technologies. This report describes use of a multisensor device algorithm in implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices by Boston Scientific, called HeartLogic. We present 2 cases of patients with advanced heart failure who were actively surveilled by the HeartLogic device algorithm to guide care. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.).

Keywords: COVID-19, coronavirus diseae-2019; CRT-D, cardiac resynchronization therapy–defibrillator; HF, heart failure; HeartLogic; ICD, implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices; IV, intravenous; LVAD, left ventricular assist device; heart failure; remote monitoring.

Publication types

Case Reports