Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure requiring treatment with intravenous diuretics and/or IV vasoactive drugs
- * Patient has signed informed consent and has authorized use and disclosed health information
- * Patient is at least 18 years of age
- * Patient physically suitable for ReDS measurement
- * GFR\>25
- * Initial ReDS Measurement \>35%
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Patient characteristics excluded from approved use of ReDS system: height less than 155cm or greater than 190cm, BMI \<22 or \>39, chest circumference \<80cm or \>115cm , or flail chest
- * Evidence of focal lung lesions on history, physical exam or chest x-ray, including history of pulmonary embolism, active pneumonia, or known lung nodule
- * Chronic renal failure (GFR\<25)
- * Prior cardiac surgery within 2 months of index admission
- * Patient has a ventricular assist device or has had a cardiac transplantation
- * Patients in cardiogenic shock at admission requiring inotropic support
- * Congenital heart malformations or intra-thoracic mass that would affect right-lung anatomy (e.g dextrocardia, lung carcinoma, or pacemaker box in the right chest)
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to N/A (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No