TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrocardiographic monitoring II-Ambulatory monitoring
AU - Jowett, Nigel
AU - Thompson , David, R.
PY - 1986/1/1
Y1 - 1986/1/1
N2 - Abnormalities of cardiac rhythm are common, and may affect patients with or without cardiac disease. When the dysrhythmia is frequent, documentation is easily accomplished with brief periods of static monitoring. However, if the dysrhythmia is infrequent or transient, then extended monitoring is required. Continuous prolonged ambulatory cardiographic monitoring has been developed over the last 20 years for determining the frequency and duration of these electrical abnormalities, and has proved to be invaluable in the investigation of the patient with symptomatic disturbances of cardiac rhythm. 'Micro-chip' technology has allowed miniaturisation of many different portable recorders to document the patients heart rhythm during their normal daily activities, when rhythm disturbances are more likely to occur.
AB - Abnormalities of cardiac rhythm are common, and may affect patients with or without cardiac disease. When the dysrhythmia is frequent, documentation is easily accomplished with brief periods of static monitoring. However, if the dysrhythmia is infrequent or transient, then extended monitoring is required. Continuous prolonged ambulatory cardiographic monitoring has been developed over the last 20 years for determining the frequency and duration of these electrical abnormalities, and has proved to be invaluable in the investigation of the patient with symptomatic disturbances of cardiac rhythm. 'Micro-chip' technology has allowed miniaturisation of many different portable recorders to document the patients heart rhythm during their normal daily activities, when rhythm disturbances are more likely to occur.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0022586201&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0266-612X(86)90089-1
DO - 10.1016/0266-612X(86)90089-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 3635561
AN - SCOPUS:0022586201
VL - 1
SP - 123
EP - 129
JO - Intensive Care Nursing Journal
JF - Intensive Care Nursing Journal
SN - 0266-612X
IS - 3
ER -