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A member asked:
What can an insertable cardiac monitor catch that a regular attachment outside the skin monitor miss ?? are they worth it?
2 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Last longer: It’s not so much that they can catch things that the other one won’t, but rather that they can be consistently and constantly capture rhythms for several months at a time.
Answered 1/5/2019
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Please clarify: 1) Are you the patient? 2) If not, who is? 3) WHY is the monitor being recommended? There’s always a reason, and different reasons have different pretest predictive values. 4) Who recommended the test? Please state what answer was given to you by that clinician to your question; or, if that person has NOT. been asked, please state why not.
Answered 2/26/2018
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