{"id":1601,"date":"2017-07-31T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/24-hour-ecg\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:25:25","slug":"24-hour-ecg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/cardiology\/24-hour-ecg\/","title":{"rendered":"24 hour ECG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<strong>Features of the standard report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Predominant rhythm<\/li>\n<li>Important observations &#8211; pauses, sustained tachycardias etc<\/li>\n<li>Ventricular ectopics<\/li>\n<li>Supraventricular ectopics<\/li>\n<li>Bradycardias<\/li>\n<li>Any other arrhythmias<\/li>\n<li>Patient diary events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NB: a normal tape dose NOT rule out serious rhythm disturbance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantifying arrhythmias<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total beats per day example\n<ul>\n<li>60 bpm x 60 minutes x 24 hours = 86400 beats per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Very occassional: &lt;10<\/li>\n<li>Occasional: 11 &#8211; 1500<\/li>\n<li>Moderate: 1500 &#8211; 2500<\/li>\n<li>Frequent: \u00a0&gt;2500<\/li>\n<li>Very frequent: &gt; 25% of total beats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Benign findings on tapes (generally)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sinus arrhythmia<\/li>\n<li>Sinus bradycardia or tachycardia<\/li>\n<li>Ectopics (VE or SVEs)<\/li>\n<li>Nocturnal conduction disturbances<\/li>\n<li>Very short arrhythmias (few beats of SVT or AF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Red flags<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete heart block \/ 3rd degree AV block<\/li>\n<li>SVT &gt; 120 bpm<\/li>\n<li>&gt;1 episode of ventricular tachycardia<\/li>\n<li>&gt;5 beats of ventricular tachycardia<\/li>\n<li>Sinus pauses &gt; 3 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Ventricular pauses &gt; 3 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Mobitz type 2<\/li>\n<li>Diurnal heart rates &lt; 40 bpm<\/li>\n<li>Sustained ( &gt;30 seconds) atrial fibrillation\/flutter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Red flags in background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abnormal heart structure<\/li>\n<li>FH of unexplained sudden death<\/li>\n<li>Unexplained syncope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Features of the standard report Predominant rhythm Important observations &#8211; pauses, sustained tachycardias etc Ventricular ectopics Supraventricular ectopics Bradycardias Any other arrhythmias Patient diary events NB: a normal tape dose NOT rule out serious rhythm disturbance Quantifying arrhythmias Total beats per day example 60 bpm x 60 minutes x 24 hours = 86400 beats per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/data-interpretation\/cardiology\/24-hour-ecg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 hour ECG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1618,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601\/revisions\/2094"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papergp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}