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Santosh Menon, MD Launches Aquapheresis Workgroup for Colloquium
May 17, 2010
Dr. Santosh Menon, a leading expert in ultrafiltration for heart failure, has launched an Aquapheresis Workgroup for Colloquium. The workgroup will provide a framework for hospitals to use when instituting an ultrafiltration program as well as develop the criteria required for accreditation of heart failure centers and institutes.
Dr. Menon notes in his presentation that quality in heart failure is often limited by progressive shortness of breath. Commonly this leads to a visit to the emergency room and hospital admission. Aquapheresis is an emerging approach to volume overload reduction that offers advantages over loop diuretics. Advances in technology now make it available to a broad population of patients. Aquapheresis is likely to reduce heart failure hospital length of stay and readmission rates.
Santosh Menon, MD, FACC is the Director of the Carl H. and Edyth Lindner Heart Failure Treatment Center at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio
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