Heart Failure Educational and Follow up Platform (HELP)
Chronic Heart Failure
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Chronic Heart Failure focused on measuring chronic heart failure, BNP, telemedicine, telemonitoring, weight, education, self management, cost effectiveness
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Heart failure diagnosed on a first hospitalization for acute exacerbation during the last twelve months, without high age limit
- Men or women
- More than 18 years old
- Minimal knowledge of the French language (patient or his relatives)
- The patient need to fill an informed written consent
- Patient resides or is treated in Ile de France
- Patient is insured under the social security system
Exclusion Criteria:
- Myocardial infarction or revascularization or Heart Valve Surgery < 3 months
- Inability to execute the feasibility test
- Major cognitive disorders do not allow access to the platform
- Patient does not have the necessary autonomy to use the equipment
- Sensitive subject, under Article L32 of the Code of Public Health
- Patient enrolled in another clinical trial
- Renal failure with creatininemia clearance (cockcroft) <15 ml/min
- 24h/day oxygen
Sites / Locations
- Centre Hospitalier René DUBOS
- Victor Dupouy Hospital
- Sud francilien Hospital
- Henri-Mondor Hospital
- Simone Veil Hospital
- Bernard Clinic
- Gonesse Hospital
- Versailles Hospital
- Orsay Hospital
- Meaux Hospital
- Sainte Marie Clinic
- Georges Pompidou University Hospital
- Mutualiste Montsouris Institute
- Turin Clinic
- Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Other
Experimental
Active Comparator
Placebo group
Cordiva System (R)
BNP and Cordiva (R) monitoring system
Patients will be managed per consensus guidelines Clinicians could see the patients as many times as necessary in order to optimize their therapy and could make BNP measurement (but not using Home BNP monitoring)
Patient will see their cardiologist every three months and benefit from telemonitoring of their weight and general well being through a specific communicant device.
In this group, patients and doctors have access to the platform detailed above (Cordiva (R) monitoring system) and had also access to BNP home monitoring (BNP heartcheck).