It’s a no-go for the implantable heart monitor

How about using the old staples to monitor CHF – a scale, and common sense ie. weight gain of >2lbs in a day, shortness of breath, even a small pulse oximeter (my office bought one for $300 and i use it almost every day).

i’m guessing this device, if it showed a 0.0001% survival advantage it’d be approved by the fda, and medicare (taxpayers) would foot the bill for probably on the order of $10,000 (device + md + hospital costs + followup etc.) for how many hundreds of thousands of elderly folks with chf.