HEALTH FIRST CARDIOLOGIST Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC, implanted a BIOMONITOR IV nearly one year to the day he replaced it with a dual-chamber pacemaker. The monitor had picked up significant heart block. “This is what Health First is all about. We want to provide cutting-edge care close to home …. There's really nothing that we need to refer out.” Read the full feature here.

A pacemaker for an athletic Merritt Island senior, Richard Dean, is the result of one year of biometric data collected by an artificial intelligence-enhanced implanted monitor.

Dean has finished an Ironman triathlon. He surfs, windsurfs and paddleboards. Now in his 70s, he hits the gym regularly, and he bicycles – a lot. But a couple years ago, his heart was slowing him down. It seemed to be skipping beats while exercising. His echocardiogram was normal.

Exactly one year ago, Health First Cardiologist Kevin R. Campbell, MD, FACC implanted a new artificial intelligence-enhanced implantable cardiac monitor – the BIOMONITOR IV from BIOTRONIK. The device is intended to determine if a serious heart rhythm abnormality was causing Dean’s symptoms.

“This is a guy who does Ironmans. He's a triathlete – very, very highly functioning,” says Dr. Campbell.

What the implanted monitor ultimately picked up was a disruption of the electrical signals of the heart commonly called heart block. On June 18, Dean went to Health First’s Cape Canaveral Hospital to have an Edora 8 DR-T pacemaker implanted.

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