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    Percutaneous implantation of pulmonary artery pressure sensors for monitoring treatment of chronic heart failure

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    Interventional procedures consultation document

    In chronic heart failure your heart muscle is weak and not able to pump blood around your body strongly enough. This causes pressure to increase in the pulmonary artery (the blood vessel that takes blood from the heart to the lungs). In this procedure, a small electronic pressure sensor is inserted through the skin (percutaneous) into a vein in the thigh or the neck and then into the pulmonary artery. The sensor sends daily blood pressure measurements to a monitor in your home. The monitor sends the measurements to your care team, who can assess whether your treatment needs adjusting. The aim is to manage treatment and reduce hospital admissions.

    This is a review of NICE's interventional procedures guidance on insertion and use of implantable pulmonary artery pressure monitors in chronic heart failure.

    NICE's interventional procedures advisory committee met to consider the evidence and the opinions of professional experts, who are consultants with knowledge of the procedure.

    This document contains the draft guidance for consultation. Your views are welcome, particularly:

    • comments on the draft recommendations

    • information about factual inaccuracies

    • additional relevant evidence, with references if possible.

    NICE is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination and fostering good relations between people with particular protected characteristics and others.

    This is not NICE's final guidance on this procedure. The draft guidance may change after this consultation.

    After consultation ends, the committee will:

    • meet again to consider the consultation comments, review the evidence and make appropriate changes to the draft guidance

    • prepare a second draft, which will go through a resolution process before the final guidance is agreed.

    Please note that we reserve the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultation or not to publish them at all if, in the reasonable opinion of NICE, there are a lot of comments or if publishing the comments would be unlawful or otherwise inappropriate.

    Closing date for comments: 19 August 2021

    Target date for publication of guidance: December 2021