Improving Outcomes: Heart Failure

The Geisinger Heart Institute’s unique Heart Failure program delivers a better quality of life and life expectancy for patients with heart failure. The program offers the latest medical and surgical options for managing chronic and acute catastrophic heart failure, such as:

• Ultrafiltration to increase the patient’s response to standard therapy.
• Impedance cardiography to monitor progress of heart failure patients.
• Implantable defibrillators to reduce sudden death.
• Advanced surgical therapies, including ventricular assist devices such as Tandem Heart and HealthMate II.

Geisinger’s dedicated team brings experience to evaluating and treating new and advanced heart failure patients, as well as providing medical management of end-stage patients.

Patients and families take comfort in the fact that the program ensures coordinated follow-up of patients by the same physicians and nurses during their entire course of care.

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• More information on heart failure.