PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A new wireless patch device that enables prolonged monitoring for atrial fibrillation (AF) after cryptogenic stroke identified more patients with AF than does standard 24-hour ...
For more than half a century, physicians have relied on a portable device called the Holter monitor to record patients' heart activity as they go about their everyday activities. However, according to ...
Increasing Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases: Holter monitors are on high set demand for the unique purpose of diagnosing heart diseases, for which their number is constantly rising on the market.
Researchers have discovered that a small adhesive wireless device worn on the chest for up to two weeks does a better job detecting abnormal and potentially dangerous heart rhythms than the Holter ...
Cardiologs, a company that uses ECG data to detect potential cardiac arrhythmias, is developing a new way to predict atrial fibrillation. On Tuesday, the European Heart Journal – Digital Health ...
For CRYSTAL AF (Cryptogenic Stroke and Underlying AF), investigators led by Tommaso Sanna, MD, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy), examined the efficacy of 6 months of ...
Doctors wanting to determine a patient’s atrial fibrillation burden have a myriad of technologies at their disposal: 24-hour Holter monitors, 30-day event monitors that are triggered by an abnormal ...
The longer and continuous recording duration of an event loop recorder may offer physicians the advantage of recording paroxysmal and often silent episodes of atrial fibrillation that would not be ...
Medicare typically covers a Holter monitor for between 48 hours and 7 days when medically necessary. You must have a qualifying symptom, such as arrhythmia, chest pain, loss of consciousness, heart ...