Heart palpitation, heart beating fast or slow suddenly, heart beating slowly and without strength, many people generally use these descriptions for heart beaten when they have heart discomfort. Some people also have fatigue, sweating, wheezing, chest pain, and other symptoms. Usually, the doctor may ask the patient to do a 24-hour Holter ECG to check the heart activities. Because of the misunderstanding of dynamic ECG examination, the monitoring results are inaccurate.
Wear it 24/7 for checking without hospitalization
For patients with cardiac discomfort, outpatient ECG examination is the most basic and essential examination item. The ECG contains ordinary ECG and 24-hour Holter ECG. Since the Holter monitor needs to be worn for 24 hours, many people think that they need to be hospitalized for the examination, so they refuse the examination. But in fact, the dynamic ECG does not require inpatient examination. The equipment is small and easy to carry. The patient can wear it and go home. After the wearing time is over, the machine will be sent back to the hospital at the required time.
Change our lifestyle or cover up the conditions.
The limitations of ordinary ECGs are that they only record the short-term cardiac conditions of patients during their visits to clinical and cannot guarantee complete and reliable information to doctors. For example, the patient experienced palpitation and discomfort the night before and visited the doctor the next day. And the patient's discomfort had been relieved or even disappeared when he saw the doctor. Under this situation, the regular ECG cannot track the past condition.
The ECG records the patient's 24-hour heart condition in detail, including eating, sleep, work, exercise, and mood swings, and can capture the heart condition at the onset to the greatest extent.
If we have more rest and less activity during the examination, our electrical heart activities cannot be reflected correctly. When wearing a Holter, we have to forget its existence and work as usual. If you experience discomfort, you can record the time point and symptoms of the occurrence, which is more conducive to the doctor's judgment.
There are three points to pay attention to when doing a dynamic ECG.
We cannot access strong magnetic fields.
We can wear a Holter ECG device at home. And it will not be affected by walking, eating, sleeping, etc. It is necessary to avoid contact with strong magnetic fields because strong magnetic fields will affect the results detected by the machine.
No bath
The patient cannot take a bath during the Holter monitoring because the electrodes on ECG lead wire can easily fall off during the bath causing the failing the examination.
Skin Allergies
Some patients with sensitive skin may experience local redness, itching, and even allergic dermatitis due to allergies to the electrodes. If you have severe skin allergies, skin damage, etc., please visit a dermatologist in time.
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