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Holter heart monitor skin#
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Record Box: The box records and stores continuous heart rhythm data transmitted by the electrodes.Components include 3 electrodes and a Record Box.
Holter heart monitor portable#
Cardiac Holter Monitor: Referred to in this clinical guideline as ‘Holter monitor’, is a small ambulatory, portable ECG device.This clinical guideline applies to children requiring a Holter monitor during inpatient admission, children being discharged home with a Holter monitor and/or children having a Holter monitor applied during an outpatient clinic. To provide guidance on the management and troubleshooting of Holter Monitors. The benefit of ambulatory ECG lies in its ability to examine continuously a patient over an extended period of time, permitting patient ambulatory activity while examining electrocardiographic activity in changing environmental situations (both physical and psychological). Determine the effectiveness of anti-arrhythmic medications.Record arrhythmias that occur, providing diagnostic information about the type of arrhythmia, how long it lasts, and what might trigger it.Correlate any symptoms (chest pain, palpitations or syncope) the patient experiences with the heart’s electrical activity at that time.A cardiac Holter monitor is sometimes referred to as an ‘Ambulatory electrocardiography’ or ‘Ambulatory ECG’.Ĭardiac Holter Monitors can provide the following information:
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Appenix 2 - Placement of holter monitor electrodeĪ cardiac Holter monitor is a small, portable, non-invasive ambulatory device, used to record continuously the heart’s electrical activity in a 24–72 hour period.