title: Appropriate indications for ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring. A clinical perspective.
abstract: This article summarizes the clinical indications for ambulatory monitoring using current information from the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial and utility of the procedure to detect both drug efficacy and proarrhythmia. It also discusses silent ischemia detection and heart rate variability as an indicator of autonomic tone.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Graboys
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans