Reliability and Limitations of Automated Arrhythmia Detection in Telemetric Monitoring After Stroke
Author(s) -
Natalia Kurka,
Tobias Bobinger,
Bernd Kallmünzer,
Julia Koehn,
Peter D. Schellinger,
Stefan Schwab,
Martin Köhrmann
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.114.007892
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , acute stroke , emergency medicine , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , mechanical engineering , tissue plasminogen activator , engineering
Guidelines recommend continuous ECG monitoring in patients with cerebrovascular events. Studies on intensive care units (ICU) demonstrated high sensitivity but high rates of false alarms of monitoring systems resulting in desensitization of medical personnel potentially endangering patient safety. Data on patients with acute stroke are lacking.
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