Clinical implications of long-term ECG monitoring: from loop recorder to devices remote control

Minerva Cardioangiol. 2018 Feb;66(1):40-48. doi: 10.23736/S0026-4725.17.04474-7. Epub 2017 Jul 18.

Abstract

Long-term ECG monitoring has become nowadays an indispensable technology for prevention, management and treatment of many cardiac issues. Today long-term ECG monitoring is achievable through loop recorders and cardiac devices like pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy device-defibrillators, all of which associated with remote monitoring. Targeted long-term ECG monitoring patients who have recurrent non-documented episodes of palpitations, unexplained episodes of syncope, cryptogenic stroke or patients with a cardiomyopathy needing a risk stratification, may benefit from long-term ECG monitoring.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / therapy*
  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices
  • Defibrillators, Implantable
  • Electrocardiography / instrumentation
  • Electrocardiography / methods*
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
  • Stroke / diagnosis
  • Syncope / diagnosis
  • Time Factors