Clinical application of electrocardiographic trend recording.
New electronic technology has made trend recording (R-R intervals versus time) feasible on a routine basis outside of acute-care units at nursing stations on regular hospital floors. The physician or nurse is able to monitor the rate and rhythm changes of his patient easily with this form of data compression which minimizes the scanning of reams of ECG paper. The information obtained from such electrocardiographic data results in improved surveillance of arrhythmias and leads to better patient care.
D001146:Arrhythmia, Sinus / Q000175:diagnosis; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic