PMID- 17517341
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070822
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 1532-8414 (Electronic)
IS  - 1071-9164 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 4
DP  - 2007 May
TI  - Remote Active Monitoring in Patients with Heart Failure (RAPID-RF): design and 
      rationale.
PG  - 241-6
AB  - BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) ambulatory disease management programs appear to 
      offer the greatest benefit to HF patients at highest risk, defined as having New 
      York Heart Association (NYHA) functional Class III or IV symptoms. The Latitude 
      Patient Management System is the first HF management tool to use wireless 
      telemetry present in a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) 
      device that is linked to remotely collect blood pressure and weight measures, 
      permitting a single transmission reporting device data. Potential advantages of 
      this system include ease of data transmissions, correlation among measures of HF 
      status, arrhythmic events, and device performance. However, the use and ultimate 
      utility of these combined features for patient management are untested. METHODS 
      AND RESULTS: The Remote Active Monitoring in Patients with Heart Failure 
      (RAPID-RF) study is a multicenter registry that will enroll up to 1000 patients 
      on the Latitude Patient Management System from approximately 100 centers. The 
      primary objective is to examine physician responses to Latitude Active Monitoring 
      data alerts by assessing alert-related medical interventions. Minimum follow-up 
      will be 3 months after implant with a maximum follow-up time of 24 months after 
      implant. CONCLUSIONS: The RAPID-RF study will provide important preliminary data 
      on how remotely collected HF and arrhythmic surveillance data alter the 
      management of HF patients with CRT-D devices.
FAU - Saxon, Leslie A
AU  - Saxon LA
AD  - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
FAU - Boehmer, John P
AU  - Boehmer JP
FAU - Neuman, Stacey
AU  - Neuman S
FAU - Mullin, Christopher M
AU  - Mullin CM
LA  - eng
SI  - ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00334451
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PL  - United States
TA  - J Card Fail
JT  - Journal of cardiac failure
JID - 9442138
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Data Collection/methods
MH  - Defibrillators, Implantable
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Heart Failure/*diagnosis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Monitoring, Physiologic/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Multicenter Studies as Topic
MH  - Patient Satisfaction
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/methods
MH  - *Registries
MH  - Reminder Systems
MH  - Remote Consultation/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - *Research Design
EDAT- 2007/05/23 09:00
MHDA- 2007/08/23 09:00
CRDT- 2007/05/23 09:00
PHST- 2006/10/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/12/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2006/12/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/05/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/08/23 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/05/23 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1071-9164(06)01296-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.cardfail.2006.12.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Card Fail. 2007 May;13(4):241-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2006.12.004.