Current COVID-19 pandemic is challenging hospital capacity and healthcare workers. In such setting, it is imperative to properly select stable COVID-19 patients to be treated at home. Therefore, empowering family physicians and their patients with accurate and portable home diagnostic devices, including electrocardiogram (ECG) devices and oximeters, to early identifies those with evolutive potential becomes a priority.1 However, limited data exist on the role of ECG as home monitoring tool for COVID-19 stable patient.2 We evaluated the use of a portable 8/12 leads Smartphone-operated ECG device for self-home ECG recording, the prevalence of ECG abnormalities, and predictors of short-term hospitalization in COVID-19 patients treated at home.
Use of Smartphone-operated ECG for home ECG surveillance in COVID-19 patients / Maurizi N., Fumagalli C., Cecchi F., Olivotto I.. - In: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. DIGITAL HEALTH. - ISSN 2634-3916. - ELETTRONICO. - 2:(2021), pp. 175-178. [10.1093/ehjdh/ztab009]
Use of Smartphone-operated ECG for home ECG surveillance in COVID-19 patients
Maurizi N.;Fumagalli C.;Cecchi F.;Olivotto I.
2021
Abstract
Current COVID-19 pandemic is challenging hospital capacity and healthcare workers. In such setting, it is imperative to properly select stable COVID-19 patients to be treated at home. Therefore, empowering family physicians and their patients with accurate and portable home diagnostic devices, including electrocardiogram (ECG) devices and oximeters, to early identifies those with evolutive potential becomes a priority.1 However, limited data exist on the role of ECG as home monitoring tool for COVID-19 stable patient.2 We evaluated the use of a portable 8/12 leads Smartphone-operated ECG device for self-home ECG recording, the prevalence of ECG abnormalities, and predictors of short-term hospitalization in COVID-19 patients treated at home.
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