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  2. Does Medicare Cover a Holter Monitor?

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    A Holter monitor is a small, portable device that measures your heart’s activity for 24 to 48 hours or longer. It runs on batteries and is about the size of a camera, so you can comfortably wear ...

  3. Medicare and Holter monitors: Is there coverage?

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  4. Holter monitor - Wikipedia

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    Each Holter system has hardware (called monitor or recorder) for recording the signal, and software for review and analysis of the record. There may be a "patient button" on the front that the patient can press at specific instants such as feeling/being sick, going to bed, taking pills, marking an event of symptoms which is then documented in the symptoms diary, etc.; this records a mark that ...

  5. Cardiac monitoring - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac monitoring generally refers to continuous or intermittent monitoring of heart activity to assess a patient's condition relative to their cardiac rhythm. Cardiac monitoring is usually carried out using electrocardiography , which is a noninvasive process that records the heart's electrical activity and displays it in an electrocardiogram ...

  6. Monitoring (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Monitoring can be classified by the target of interest, including: Cardiac monitoring, which generally refers to continuous electrocardiography with assessment of the patient's condition relative to their cardiac rhythm. A small monitor worn by an ambulatory patient for this purpose is known as a Holter monitor.

  7. Implantable loop recorder - Wikipedia

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    The ILR monitors the electrical activity of the heart, continuously storing information in its circular memory (hence the name "loop" recorder) as electrocardiograms (ECGs). Abnormal electrical activity - arrhythmia is recorded by "freezing" a segment of the memory for later review.

  8. Arrhythmia - Wikipedia

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    Several groups of drugs slow conduction through the heart, without actually preventing an arrhythmia. These drugs can be used to "rate control" a fast rhythm and make it physically tolerable for the patient. [citation needed] Some arrhythmias promote blood clotting within the heart and increase the risk of embolus and stroke.

  9. Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy - Wikipedia

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    A continuous rhythm monitor such as a Holter monitor can be used to characterize the frequency of a tachyarrhythmia over a longer period of time. Additionally, some patients may not present to the clinical setting in an abnormal rhythm, and continuous rhythm monitor can be useful to determine if an arrhythmia is present over a longer duration ...