Bringing Advanced Heart Care Closer to Home at Baptist Health Floyd

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. Identifying congestion in the lung is done a couple of different ways, but a 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. So the ReDS device was definitely a gift of philanthropy to the community. It was put here in the heart failure clinic by some very generous donors, and I have tremendous gratitude for the donors that have supported, the RENS device coming to the heart failure clinic. It was such a gift to the specialized population that needs the most support.

I can't thank you enough and they can't thank you enough because I do see daily the benefit that the device provides for the clinic because this is investing in your community. This is investing in the care of so many people's lives that matters that they stay well, it matters that they stay out of the hospital, and it matters that they have a life that they live that is to the best of their ability, that they stay symptom free and feeling well. So it is a tremendous support for those patients.