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Notes  on  Event  Recorders
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Event  monitors  are  used  as  a  form  of  ambulatory  monitoring  as  the  patient  
can  still  go  about  their  daily  routine  and  only  when  symptoms  occur  does  
the  patient  need  to  press  the  button  on  the  device  to  start  it  recording  
their  ECG  from  that  point  this  is  called  a  symptom  event  recorder,  another  
type  of  event  monitor  is  a  loop  memory  monitor  which  stores  the  ECG  
before,  after  and  during  the  point  of  being  activated
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 It  is  especially  useful  when  the  
patient  only  experiences  their  symptoms  infrequently  as  it  means  the  
arrhythmia  they  are  experiencing  is  paroxysmal  and  hard  to  capture  on  a  
normal  resting  ECG  and  since  event  recorders  can  be  worn  for  up  to  a  
month  they  are  more  suited  to  this  patient  than  a  24-­‐  hour  Holter  monitor  
would  be  since  they  are  more  likely  to  capture  the  abnormality
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Another  benefit  of  using  event  monitors  is  that  they  can  capture  the  onset  
and  offset  of  the  arrhythmia,  which  is  usually  the  key  to  correctly  
diagnosing  the  patient  and  categorising  the  arrhythmia
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