Pediatric illustration

A device that records heart rate continuously for 24-72 hours using leads attached to the chest.

Indications:

  • To determine whether symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, and syncope
  • are caused by cardiac arrhythmias
  • To evaluate the adequacy of medical therapy for an arrhythmia
  • To screen high-risk cardiac patients such as those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or those who have
  • had operations known to predispose to arrhythmias
  • To evaluate possible intermittent implanted pacemaker failure
  • To determine the effect of sleep on potentially life-threatening arrhythmias