January 1, 2005Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Detection of Atrial Fibrillation by Implanted Devices with Wireless Data Transmission Capability
Why the study?
Does an automatic wireless home monitoring system reliably detect atrial fibrillation patterns and ventricular rates in patients with implanted pacing systems?
Population
276 consecutive patients with pacing system implants
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
12 +/- 2 months
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports feasibility of wireless home monitoring for AF detection in device patients; hypothesis-generating, requiring randomized trials before practice change.
Structured PICO
Does an automatic wireless home monitoring system reliably detect atrial fibrillation patterns and ventricular rates in patients with implanted pacing systems?
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Population
276 consecutive patients with pacing system implants
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Intervention
Automatic, wireless home monitoring (HM) system archiving data every 24 hours
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Outcome
Reliability of transmission, temporal atrial fibrillation (AF) patterns, and associated ventricular rate
Automatic wireless telemetry with home monitoring is efficient and reliable for early detection and precise measurement of AF burden and ventricular rate in patients with implanted devices.
Cite This Study
Varma et al. (2005) studied this question.