Comparing patient and family usability of insertable cardiac monitors in a pediatric cohort: Patient external activator versus smartphone transmission

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Implantable Loop Recorder with Long Sensing Vector: Safety, Acceptability, and Sensing Performance in Pediatric Patients

“…We suppose that it played an important role in the high sense of safety that resulted from our questionnaires. Despite clinical benefits, remote monitoring requires an increased work overload to physicians, nurses, and hospital stuff to check regularly automatic transmissions and to communicate with families during follow-up if symptoms occur or arrhythmias are detected [17][18][19]. More studies are required to better assess the impact of remote monitoring on the early detection of arrhythmias and the symptom-rhythm correlation in the pediatric population.…”