Girondin patients who have had a stroke can since March be followed from home. The Bordeaux University Hospital has just opened a remote monitoring center to provide remote support for people with several chronic diseases.
“For example, if a patient’s pacemaker registers abnormal data or if blood sugar levels are too low, we receive an alert and we can call the patient”, explains Professor Pierre Bordachar, head of the cardiac pacing and defibrillation unit.
“It’s reassuring because you are monitored 24 hours a day”
Daniel is one of the 500 patients with heart failure followed by the Bordeaux University Hospital. Twelve years ago, as he was preparing to play a rugby match between veterans, this resident of Eyzines collapsed to the ground. “I had just run 300 meters to warm up and a quarter of a second, I went into cardiac and respiratory arrest.
Victim of ventricular fibrillation, the most serious cardiac arrhythmia, Daniel was then “saved by a firefighter buddy and the referee, lifeguard”. Since this accident, he lives permanently with “a kind of mini defibrillator”. The ICD (Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) is a cardiac pacemaker whose purpose is to prevent the occurrence of sudden death.
“At home I sleep with a device that transmits my heartbeat data every day and if there is an anomaly, the nurses call me”
“We will remotely monitor a number of parameters from Daniel’s homeadds Pr. Bordachar, and it avoids complications with a diagnosis that will be earlier”.
“Remote monitoring is often done specialty by specialty, whereas there, at the Bordeaux University Hospital, there is now a unit dedicated full-time to this activity, with nurses who will be in direct contact with patients.“, concludes the head of the cardiac stimulation and cardiac defibrillation unit.