Insertable Cardiac Monitor

[dtread]

There's an FDA approved Insertable Cardiac Monitor available. I think this device would be great for somebody that has intermittent arrhythmias. The device is about the size of a thumb drive, and is implanted in the upper chest similar to a pacemaker. It can monitor and provide information on arrhythmias for up to three years: http://medgadget.com/archives/2007/12/insertable_cardiac_monitors_icms_reveal_dx_and_reveal_xt.html

 

[Duff Man]

I Need This!

 

[Bonzo Dog]

This is a small section of an e-mail I received from an ex-collegue over the weekend.

Then, the week before I was due back Chris went and had another fit. I managed to record it using his reveal implant and the consultants were able to to deduce that his heart stopped for 37 seconds. So, after a week and a half in the LGI he now has a pacemaker.

 

[Bina]

I really need one of these also.....last night I had some scary slow and irregular heartbeats.

 

[Trinityheart8891]

hey,

this sounds like a possibility for me too, right now everything is on hold, no news back yet from the 30 day monitor, having intermittent issues, possible/probable SVT, if I keep having "spells" that I cant nail down I will suggest something like this, I thought my HR was gonna fly off the handle today by the way I was feeling, and I was in no situation to be able to deal with it, we intubated a patient today and shipped them down the road, and I had a severe asthmatic as one of my patients, and a patient on comfort care, I had no room for error, no room to have to stop and say "oh, I cant assist you in this intubation, I have to go now, my heart is booking in the 180s"

not exactly feasible, but you gotta get the rhythm on tape before you can treat it!

thanks!

Morgan

 

[joanne6]

Reveal implantable monitor

Reveal implantable monitor

I had a couple of episodes of syncope which were not diagnosed. The doctors decided I should have the implanted monitor, which I did not want. I wanted to be "normal" and not have any more heart problems.
Fortunately they talked me into the monitor. For 14 months I was fine and then one morning I passed out again. 911 to the hospital, one day in progressive cardiac unit showed nothing. No one asked the monitor what it saw.
I went to the hospital for my follow up 2 weeks later and it showed that my heart had stopped for 20 seconds. 2 days later I was admitted for a pacemaker implant. I am now very grateful to the Reveal monitor for diagnosing my problem so the doctor could treat it. Highly recommend this to anyone with syncope or arrythmia.
Joanne