Key result
Wearable rhythm monitors may speed diagnosis, detect post-ablation recurrences, and improve overall patient management.
Why the study?
Wearables are increasingly important for arrhythmia detection before and after ablation, but optimal workflows across different clinical scenarios and devices require delineation.
How can wearables be used for cardiac rhythm monitoring before and after catheter ablation?
How can wearables be used for cardiac rhythm monitoring before and after catheter ablation?
Wearables offer a promising tool for detecting and managing arrhythmias before and after catheter ablation, though device selection must be individualized.
May aid pre- and post-ablation monitoring; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
Mobile health technologies are gaining importance in clinical decision-making. With the capability to monitor the patient's heart rhythm, they have the potential to reduce the time to confirm a diagnosis and therefore are useful in patients eligible for screening of atrial fibrillation as well as in patients with symptoms without documented symptom rhythm correlation. Such is crucial to enable an adequate arrhythmia management including the possibility of a catheter ablation. After ablation, wearables can help to search for recurrences, in symptomatic as well as in asymptomatic patients. Furthermore, those devices can be used to search for concomitant arrhythmias and have the potential to help improving the short- and long-term patient management. The type of wearable as well as the adequate technology has to be chosen carefully for every situation and every individual patient, keeping different aspects in mind. This review aims to describe and to elaborate a potential workflow for the role of wearables for cardiac rhythm monitoring regarding detection and management of arrhythmias before and after cardiac electrophysiological procedures.
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Hillmann et al. (2022) conducted a review in Arrhythmias before and after catheter ablation. Wearables for cardiac rhythm monitoring was evaluated. Wearable devices for cardiac rhythm monitoring have the potential to reduce time to diagnosis, detect arrhythmia recurrences after catheter ablation, and improve overall patient management.
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