Why the study?
With technological advances offering a wide variety of rhythm monitoring options, clinicians require an overview of supporting evidence, advantages, and limitations to guide appropriate test selection in suspected arrhythmias.
This review provides guidance on selecting appropriate heart rhythm monitoring strategies, including novel wearable and implantable devices, to improve diagnostic yield in patients with suspected arrhythmias.
May inform device selection for suspected arrhythmias; leaves open prospective comparisons of diagnostic yield.
Technological advances have made diagnosis of heart rhythm disturbances much easier, with a wide variety of options, including single-lead portable devices, smartphones/watches to sophisticated implantable cardiac monitors, allowing accurate data to be collected over different time periods depending on symptoms frequency. This review provides an overview of the novel and existing heart rhythm testing options, including a description of the supporting evidence for their use. A description of each of the tests is provided, along with discussion of their advantages and limitations. This is intended to help clinicians towards choosing the most appropriate test, thus improving diagnostic yield management of patients with suspected arrhythmias.
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