Injectable heart monitors to be trialled

Heart researchers at the University of Glasgow are using tiny injectable heart monitors to record the heart rhythm of 500 Scottish patients with heart failure.

Professor Roy Gardner and his team at the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence in Glasgow and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital will carry out a study where 500 heart failure patients in Scottish hospitals will be asked if they agree to trial a new device called an injectable cardiac monitor (ICM).

An ICM is a tiny device – about the size of three matchsticks stuck together – that can easily be implanted under the skin in a person’s chest wall to continuously record their heart rhythm over long periods of time.