Patent ID: 8480594

Claim:
A system for treating congestive heart failure in a medical patient, the system comprising: a first sensor, wherein said first sensor comprises a pressure transducer that generates a signal indicative of fluid pressure within a heart: a signal processing apparatus that generates an instructive signal that instructs the patient to take an appropriate therapeutic treatment to control the pressure within the patient's heart, based at least in part on the signal generated by the pressure transducer; a patient signaling device that communicates the instructive signal indicative of the appropriate therapeutic treatment to the patient, wherein the patient signaling device generates at least two distinct signals distinguishable from one another by the patient, each said signal indicative of a different therapeutic treatment; and a housing, wherein at least a portion of a device selected from the group consisting of one or more of the following: said signal processing apparatus, said pressure transducer, and said patient signaling device, is contained within or disposed on said housing.