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24-Hour Holter Monitor Patients with intermittent heart rhythm problems are often difficult to diagnose. Bay Area Heart Center offers the finest quality ambulatory heart monitoring equipment available. These holter monitors record all of the heart beats of a patient for a period of 24 hours. The rhythms are analyzed by computer and abnormalities are printed out for review by our cardiologists. Many arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia can be identified in addition to various bradyarrhythmias (slow heart rhythms). Appropriate treatment ranging from medications to pacemakers can be prescribed on the basis of the holter monitor findings. For patients with extremely intermittent rhythm disturbances, event recorders are available which can be carried by a patient for weeks or even months. When symptoms occur, the patient activates the device and the heart rhythm at the time of the symptoms is recorded. All of the Bay Area Heart Center cardiologists are trained and skilled in the interpretation of holter monitor and event recorders. |
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