Assurity MRI™

Early Insight

The Assurity MRI pacemaker works together with a wireless remote monitoring system. Remote monitoring capabilities provide earlier notification of actionable clinical events, allowing you to detect patient status changes sooner.

• The ASSERT clinical trial has shown that subclinical atrial tachyarrhythmias (AT) are associated with a 2.5-fold increased risk of stroke or systemic embolism.⁴
• Remote monitoring has been shown to reduce mortality in pacemaker patients.⁵
• The Assurity MRI pacemaker can help you identify patients at risk for stroke earlier, with clinically proven AT/atrial fibrillation (AF) diagnostic tools.⁴
• The Abbott remote follow-up system, Merlin.net™ Patient Care Network (PCN), reduces clinician^6,7 and patient follow-up costs.⁷
• Wireless, radio-frequency telemetry offers faster access to clinical data, increasing the possibility for clinical efficiency at implant and follow-up.⁸

References

*For additional information about specific MR Conditional devices and leads, inlcuding scan parameters, warnings, precautions, adverse conditions to MRI scanning and potential adverse events, please refer to the Abbott MRI-Ready Systems Manual.

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2. Olshansky B, Day J, Lerew D, Brown S, & Stolen K. Eliminating right ventricular pacing may not be best for patients requiring implantable cardioverter–defibrillators. HeartRhythm, 2007;4(7), 886-891.
3. Faulknier B, Richards M. The association of the use of the Ventricular Intrinsic Preference (VIP™) feature with heart failure hospitalization in pacemaker patients. Paper presented at the XV International Symposium on Progress in Clinical Pacing; December 4-7, 2012; Rome, Italy.
4. Healey JS, Connolly SJ, Gold MR, Israel CW, Van Gelder IC, Capucci A, … Hohnloser SH. Subclinical atrial fibrillation and the risk of stroke. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012;366, 120-129.
5. Mittal, S., Piccini, J. P., Snell, J., Prillinger, J. B., Dalal, N., & Varma, N. (2016). Improved survival in patients enrolled promptly into remote monitoring following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology: an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing, 46(2), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-016-0112-y
6. Lazarus A. Remote, wireless, ambulatory monitoring of implantable pacemakers, cardioverter defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapy systems: Analysis of a worldwide database. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 2007;30(1), S2-S12.
7. St. Jude Medical. Remote Monitoring. Technical Monograph; GMCRM494. 2009.
8. Crossley GH, Boyle A, Vitense H, Chang Y, Mead RH, & CONNECT Investigators. The CONNECT (Clinical Evaluation of Remote Notification to Reduce Time to Clinical Decision) trial: The value of wireless remote monitoring with automatic clinician alerts. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2011;57(10), 1181-1189.