Heart and Rhythm Diagnostics
Your Tests. Our Priority.
Ambulatory ECG
An electrocardiogram (ECG) provides a recording of your heart rhythm. It records the electrical activity of the heart that causes the muscular contraction that contributes to your pulse.
This can be done whilst resting (12 lead ECG) to provide a 'picture' of your heart beat, identifying the rate, rhythm and potential structural or electrical anomalies.
However, symptoms related to the electrical activity of the heart often occur during normal daily life. For this, we use an ambulatory ECG monitor, allowing you to perform all your normal daily activities whilst recording your heart rhythm for a certain duration, to be analysed once completed.
Indications for this test may include :-
Feeling abnormalities with your heart beat (palpitations)
Dizziness (pre-syncope)
Fainting/blackouts (syncope)
Heart rate assessment (with or without known abnormal rhythms)
This small device is very lightweight and attached to the chest by 2 stickers (electrodes). It will record every heart beat you have for the duration of the recording (24hr to 14day).
It will be fitted and removed at our local site and then the data analysed by our skilled Cardiac Physiologists. You will receive full instructions related to the use of the monitor. Our physiologists are only a phone call away to discuss any issues during the monitoring period.
A report will be produced once we have your monitor back and provide your physician with the full analysis, looking for trends and abnormalities, whilst giving a thorough insight in to the activity of you and your heart during the recording.
You will be provided with a diary to record your activities and symptoms to match up with any abnormalities detected through the recording.
Please use the links below for further information regarding the test.
NHS webpage for Ambulatory EGG
Ambulatory ECG Patient information leaflet