REVIEW  MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS 

Minerva Cardioangiologica 2018 February;66(1):40-8

DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4725.17.04474-7

Copyright © 2017 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

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

Andrea DI CORI, Raffaele DE LUCIA ✉

Second Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Nuovo S. Chiara Hospital, Pisa, Italy

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.

KEY WORDS: Electrocardiography - Physiologic monitoring - Artificial pacemaker - Implantable defibrillators - Cardiac resynchronization therapy devices