Implantable Heart Monitor - Loop Recorder (Q&A)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Eric Schwartz, M.D. is a Cardiologist with Cardiovascular Specialists of Central Maryland and has privileges at Howard County General Hospital. In this video, he discusses what a loop recorder is and why a patient may need one of these implantable cardiac monitoring devices.
For more information about the heart and vascular services available at Howard County General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, please visit hcgh.org/heart.
In June 2023, the hospital was renamed Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center.
Thank You Dr. Schwartz.
Thanks so much Dr. Erick for taking the time to help us with this video . Mibe is due by next week God willing. God bless you richly.
I had one implanted last week, for my genetic Long QT syndrome, they are much smaller now. Biotronik The size of a pen lid. I uploaded a video on my channel about my operation to place it.
I had a seizure 2 months ago , heart rate dropped to 36 beats per minute, but after going to the hospital heart rate came back up to normal. After multiple test they installed a heart loop monitor. No incidents so far. Went to my stomach dr. To have a upper GI done. Walking into building I was short of breath , cold sweat. The got me ready for procedure, heart rate dropped to 38,33,31, never came back up. Went to hospital and had a pacemaker installed. It was my stomach dr that caught the problem not the heart loop monitor. I asked the cardiologist why my monitor did not pick this up. They called up record of my monitor and said the last time it was downloaded was July 30th. That was the last time I saw my cardiologist ! This happened August 15th. What the hell good is the heart loop monitor if nobody monitors the damm thing ! I had been short of breath on and off for a good week or so .
I have one fitted ir was easy done didn't really feel a thing so nothing to worry about honest, it's done before you no it😊
goodluck.
Hi Colette is yours still all ok?
Yes it's easy done but am getting a strange scent coming from mines my question is why
how does it transmit data? Do your phone app or receiving device that then connects to internet or, does the unit that’s put in your chest are transmit directly somehow??
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Mine uses 4g. I had my loop implant yesterday.
Im about to have one put in me in the next couple days... im scared! But i really have to do it to find out whats wrong, i sure hope it heals fast and doesn't hurt too mich :(
Hi how did it go for you?
it wasnt bad! it was fast and healed fast.. it will feel funny and may turn under the skin for a while but then the meat will grow around it and it wont do it no more.. but it was worth it! :)
Thanks Laura, yes I think mine keeps moving. Worse at night, but feel reassured by your comment that it's quite normal. Can't bare to even touch it at the moment lol all squeamish!
The procedure is easy as 123 when I was about to get mine i was scared but after I did it trust me it was so easy as 123
How long to take a regular shower after the loop is inserted?
I’m having one put in because I might have cpvt
I have one. They implanted mine after a Catheter ablation. My electrophysiologist couldn't get my heart in the right rhythm so implanted a loop monitor. I have Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome.
Hi Nikki how did it work for you?
It's fine. It doesn't actually do anything to help other than show my specialist what rythms my heart has been in. It's logs any abnormal rythms and sends the reading to his office. I'm due to have mine removed soon. It's been a little over 3 years.
2 years. My mistake.
Thankyou Nikki, I hope you get sorted soon and start to feel better. Regards Sharon
I just had the small Medtronic Reveal Linq fitted, My first question is that I am a little confused as to what I am
supposed to do, Just saw a youtube user video where the user does a
manual send using the removable part of the base station after recording
an episode with the little patient activator, but I also saw an
official Medtronic video where the lady said you only use the removable
part of the base station when you first set up the machine, afterwards
it collects and transmits the data to your doctor every night.I would also like to know when I should be marking events with the little
activator as by the afternoon I have permanent palpitations, should I
even bother marking these with my activator or does the implantable loop
device record abnormalities anyway and automatically transfer them?What I am asking is if I do absolutely nothing at all, will my doctor still
get to see what my heart is doing during palpitations?
So I'm still going to be tired for 3 years? Seems a little weird.
I have one currently and I hate it. It gets hot when it downloads at night and if I move my left arm the wrong way it hurts.
I am meant to be having one of theses
Is it normal to feel this device in you? Mines is poking like a small bump under my skin and I feel it moving especially when I sleep. Is this normal? I got it done about a week ago.
Has it settled now?
Sharon Naylar I got it removed. The doctor implanted it incorrectly and now I'm too scared to get it put back in.
oh no :( did you get pain from it then? Im in a bit of discomfort too. Is it easy to take out?
Sharon Naylar It was very easy for them to remove it. The second they did my pain was gone.
Sharon Naylar Are you in real pain though? Like how long ago did you get the device put in? On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest pain I gave my pain level a 9! Are you in that type of pain?
I can’t do this 😟 I am cancelling my appointment because I am way to scared to do this… my doctors did not explain any of this to me. I’m so scared.
I had Loop implant yesterday. Around 20mins start to finish. Totally untraumatic. Only pain experienced was the local anaesthetic injection. I have been painfree since procedure 20hrs ago. Took regular paracetamol post- procedure. I feel relieved that my random symptoms can now be captured by this device, and hence, a diagnose can be made, and correct treatment given. I hope you can get further help from your cardiologist if you expressed your fears. God bless
I want to know if the device cannot remove before 3years and again I have the device place in me and am getting some Wade smell coming from me because of the device when I urinate and also go to move my bowels my stool is smelling the same way as what am smelling can someone tell me please what should I do
The doctor who put it in I went back and ask him why am I getting that scent he is telling he don't know so what am say if he is the doctor and putting them in people and he doesn't know what caused the scent how must I sopose to know please someone help me please thanks.
How do you know it's from the device?
Has anybodies loop recorder ever vibrate. Like out of the blue its freaking me out and i dont know what to do
Juanita Bowens. My recorder was inserted yesterday. This model ( LUX-Dx) vibrates only when the actual monitor ( looks like a cell phone) is scanned over the Loop recorder site. This means, the vibration indicates that the scanner/monitor is positioned correctly to capture the event.
Either your physiologist or your user manual may help you with how your recorder functions, and explain the vibrations in your model. Hope this helps
Just had bitroniks put in. Was not in deep enough. Wound could not heal. Had it taken out. Period
ALOT CAN HAPPEN IN 3 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!