All About Kestra, etc.
In this year, the ASSURE® Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator from Kestra Medical Technologies received FDA approval.
What is 2021?
This ECG complex represents ventricular depolarization.
What is the QRS complex?
Patients with an ejection fraction of 35% or less after myocardial infarction—but without revascularization—must wait this long before being considered for a primary‑prevention ICD.
What is 40 days?
This is the business tool where you would locate files to help with inventory status, claims status and SWO expirations.
What is Power BI?
In the United States, this many people die each year from sudden cardiac arrest, according to national statistics.
What is 436K?
This number of fits is the expectation during your initial 6 months as a Territory Manager
What is 40?
This ECG interval represents the time it takes for an electrical impulse to travel from the atria through the AV node before reaching the ventricles
What is the PR interval?
Patients with newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy and an EF around 35% must wait this long—allowing time for GDMT and potential reverse remodeling—before being considered for a primary‑prevention ICD.
What is 90 days?
The number of VT/VF episodes that were missed by Kestra's algorithm in the ACE Detect Study.
What is zero?
This percentage of Kestra ASSURE patients are free from false alarms, as proven in ACE-PAS.
What is 94%?
This is an episode that is recorded in CareStation and helps establish a baseline of the patient during the fitting.
What is a Patient Triggered Event?
This is the normal intrinsic rate of the heart’s primary pacemaker, the SA node.
What is 60–100 beats per minute?
In heart failure management, this acronym refers to the evidence‑based combination of medications used to reduce symptoms, prevent hospitalizations, and improve survival.
What is Guideline‑Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT)?
According to DME rules, a patient can be fit within this timeframe prior to hospital discharge.
What is within 48 hours of discharge?
This is the number of ECG minutes stored for a Patient Triggered episode. ___ min before & ___min after.
What is 1 minute before and 1 minute of after?
This device must be used to adjust the nominal settings to physician directed settings
What is the programming tablet?
This dangerously fast heart rhythm originates in the ventricles and reduces cardiac output by preventing the chambers from filling effectively, leading to a significant drop in blood flow to the body.
What is ventricular tachycardia?
This heart rhythm term describes a resting rate of fewer than 60 beats per minute in adults.
What is bradycardia?
This document must be completed for patients covered by Anthem or Anthem‑like plans that follow similar medical‑necessity review guidelines before a WCD can be authorized.
What is Plan of Care document?
The number of approximate seconds in the initial detection of the Kestra algorithm.
What is 15 seconds?
This role is within Field Service Operations and helps the sales team with admin tasks in CareStation.
What is Patient Care Advocates?
This chaotic, disorganized ventricular rhythm causes the heart to quiver instead of pump, resulting in no cardiac output and making it one of the most immediately fatal cardiac emergencies.
What is ventricular fibrillation?
This medical emergency is another name for an ST‑elevated myocardial infarction.
What is STEMI or heart attack?
This email is used to send in new orders and updated documentation.
What is orderdocssubmission@kestramedical.com?
According to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, this % of SCAs are unwitnessed.
What is 50%
After every 31 days of use in CareStation this report is available to share with prescribers.
What is the Care InSights report?
This intrinsic backup heart rhythm typically fires between 20–40 beats per minute when higher pacemakers fail.
What is a ventricular escape rhythm (20–40 bpm)?
This arrhythmia is defined as three or more consecutive ventricular beats at a rate over 100 bpm that end on their own in less than 30 seconds.
What is non‑sustained ventricular tachycardia?
This German study showed that despite modern GDMT, the risk of SCA remains high in the first 90 days.
What is SCD-PROTECT?
This is the amount of time a patient has to cancel a heart alert once the alarm begins.
What is 20 seconds?
This physiologic trend if found in CareStation should be shared with the prescriber to show that a patient's heart failure may be degrading.
What is elevated night time heart rate trend?
This term describes a disease of the heart muscle in which cardiac dysfunction occurs without blockages in the coronary arteries or damage from a heart attack.
What is Non‑Ischemic Cardiomyopathy?”
This percentage of patients in the Cleveland Clinic Abstract experienced an arrhythmia.
What is 18%?
This is the largest prospective study of WCD patients to date.
What is ACE-PAS?
This overall shock conversion rate was demonstrated in the ACE-PAS study.
What is 100%