Talk:Holter monitor

As was mentioned in the article, there is a large amount of data recorded in a 24-hour period, and only little bits of it are useful for diagnostic purposes. Some mention might be made in this article of another type of worn heart monitor, which I often hear referred to as an AER, for Ambulatory Event Recorder, which, though not a Holter monitor, is related. This type of monitor records to volatile memory in a loop, perhaps 60 to 120 seconds in length, and when the patient presses the "record" button, the monitor burns the loop's current contents, and perhaps 30 to 60 seconds of ECG following the button press, to non-volatile memory.

The types of AER that I work with, and all AERs that I know of, have battery life from 7 to 45 days, with 15 days being typical, and they can transmit an analog encoded ECG over the telephone to a properly equipped call center, where operators can then send decoded ECGs to the doctor(s) responsible for diagnosis. Companies that make devices of this type include Braemar, Inc., MedNet Health (also known as Universal Medical), TZ Medical, and others. I searched a bit, but didn't find a good canonical name for this type of device, so I thought I'd mention it here, rather than guessing a name and creating a new page. Hopefully someone can use this information.


 * This could probably be on its own page. Ambulatory event recorder is a fine name. JFW | T@lk  00:51, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The Cleveland Clinic has a pretty good good overview of some of the different types here. --Arcadian 03:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Event monitor is the common way to refer to these monitors and to disginguish them from Holter monitors. Cardiac Event Monitor is probably the best heading for this type of monitor that is worn for a month or more. Also, there are two types of Event monitors. Looping which have the so called volatile memory mentioned above and Non-looping that only records after the monitor is applied and the record putton is pushed.

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"For cardiac monitoring, recording and analysing is products available to be used home. [3]" in the procedure section

I assume it means "For cardiac monitoring, recording and analysing products are available for home use" but it is very grammatically unclear — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.99.27.237 (talk) 09:18, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Wireless ambulatory ecg has enough new information to skip a redundant CSD, more useful as a section in Holter monitor (changing move from Remote patient monitoring)-- &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(talk)  21:15, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Wireless ambulatory ecg should not be merged with Holter monitor, but instead with Cardiac monitoring. Holter is a very specific subset of cardiac monitoring which does not use wireless communication for >99% of procedures. Wireless communication is has become very popular for event monitoring and is an integral part of a relatively new procedure called mobile cardiac telemetry, both of which are not holter. (I'm speaking from a clinical and service perspective in US, Canada, and EU. Anyone from hospital or other other countries may use different terminology.) Also, the Wireless ambulatory ecg section reads like advertisements for those three products. There are literally dozens of competitors with similar claims. I suggest removing that section as part of the merge. --Klox (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Written like an advertisement
Example: "Although some patients may feel uncomfortable about a Holter examination, there is nothing to worry about. No hazards are involved, and it should have little effect on one's normal daily life." This is someone's opinion, written as an advertorial, and no citations given. Not encyclopedia material/quality. 108.213.76.24 (talk) 09:10, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

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