Usefulness of Mobile Electrocardiographic Devices to Reduce Urgent Healthcare Visits

Diagnostic quality electrocardiogram from a HeartMate 3 supported patient using a smartphone-based recording device

“…This represents an opportunity to reduce unnecessary Emergency Department visits for LVAD patients by enabling ECG to be recorded at home. Although use of these devices has not been previously described for LVAD patients, mobile ECG devices have been shown to reduce the number of cardiacrelated Emergency Department visits, both in patients with previous arrhythmic episodes 8 and in healthy patients. 9 There have been previous attempts to improve the quality of ECG recordings in LVAD patients by applying a low-pass filter to a value below the frequency peak by the LVAD and a speed-specific bandstop filter to remove the LVAD frequency peak.…”

“…This represents an opportunity to reduce unnecessary Emergency Department visits for LVAD patients by enabling ECG to be recorded at home. Although use of these devices has not been previously described for LVAD patients, mobile ECG devices have been shown to reduce the number of cardiac-related Emergency Department visits, both in patients with previous arrhythmic episodes 8 and in healthy patients. 9…”