The time allotted for monitoring takes from one day to three days.
How does Holter-monitoring look?
The observation is carried out with the help of a small special device designed not to interfere with the patient in his usual life.
After the end of the observation, all the data received are forwarded to the laboratory for analysis, as a result of which the doctors will make their conclusion.
Holter-monitoring is necessary for people of the following categories:
- to athletes;
- to the inhabitants of big cities;
- for elderly people with heart problems;
- to pregnant women;
- for men over the age of 35;
- to women who have crossed the forty-year mark.
Reasons for Holter-monitoring:
- chest pain;
- chemotherapy;
- after surgery;
- obesity;
- excess of glucose level;
- excess of cholesterol;
- pregnancy;
- chronic fatigue;
- shortness of breath.
Advantages of Holter-monitoring - objectivity and duration. Observations are conducted by the patient in vivo, which allows an adequate assessment of the load on the heart.
Holter monitoring system is presented today with new devices with high accuracy of the analysis of the output data and with miniature ECG sensors.
The system is used for the removal and analysis of ECG data from patients dealing with their own affairs. The system is characterized by unique high consumer standards.
Modern holter monitoring devices not only register ECG, but also record physical activity( actiography), monitor blood pressure.
The software allows not only to instantly get a complete picture of the regulation of cardiac work, but also to show fragments and episodes of heart rhythm disturbances.
Daily Holter monitoring ( long-term ECG recording) is a method of instrumental physiological diagnostics.
The study consists of continuous ECG recording for one day to seven days.
The electrocardiogram is recorded using a portable special device - a recorder( recorder) that the patient wears on his shoulder or wears on his belt.
Recording is performed on several channels( up to 12).
The greatest distribution was received by two- and three-channel recorders.
Holter monitoring during pregnancy can be done.
If the pregnant woman has felt the pulse quickening, then she should go to the polyclinic, at least for the purpose of securing.
In addition to Holter monitoring, it is worth to pass:
- ECG;
- Echocardiography;
- hormonal examination of the thyroid gland.
During pregnancy it is necessary to be especially careful of various chronic diseases, because the main thing now is to wait for the birth of a long-awaited healthy child.
Holter monitoring at home
To get this service, you need to call the registry and discuss the time of the doctor's visit.
After the appointment agreement, a doctor with a computer and other equipment will come to your home.
The computer is required to enter the desired program into the monitoring instrument( Holter).
Programming is based on a conversation with the patient.
The doctor extracts useful information from the conversation and uploads it to the computer. Then the doctor leaves for 24 hours for the monitoring period.
A day later he returns, takes readings from a computer and does an analysis of all the data received( it takes up to 40 minutes) and gives advice to a cardiologist.
Contraindications for Holter monitoring, as well as the usual ECG, is practically nonexistent.
Where to do Holter monitoring
In Moscow, you can go through this procedure in many clinics.
For example, in the clinic "Dobromed."
The clinic has several branches:
SWAD, Northern Butovo. Boulevard Dmitry Donskoy 8. Metro: "Boulevard D. Donsky."Phone: 495 714 90 90.
SEAD, Marino. Bratislavskaya street 13, building 1. Metro: "Bratislava".Phone: 495 658 99 19.
CAO, Western Degunino. Street Korovinskoe Highway 23, Building 1. Metro: Petrovsko-Razumovskaya. Phone: 499 906 66 11.
CAO, Khovrino. Lyapidevsky Street 14, building 1. Metro: "River Station".Phone: 495 455 63 69.
NEAD, Northern Medvedkovo. Street Grekova 5. Metro: Medvedkovo. Phone: 499 479 10 11.
VAO, Preobrazhenskoye. Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street 32, building 1. Metro: Cherkizovskaya. Phone: 499 161 25 50.
ZAO, Fili-Davydkovo. Kremenchugskaya Street 3, building 4. Metro: Slavyansky Boulevard. Phone: 499 233 24 97.
CAO, Airport. Krasnoarmeyskaya Street 12. Metro: "Airport".Phone: 495 613 65 74.
The price for Holter monitoring is in the range of 2500 rubles.
Holter-monitoring - long-term observation of the changing curve of the electrocardiogram of arterial pressure.
