Performance of a remote interrogation system for the in-hospital evaluation of cardiac implantable electronic devices.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) often need device interrogation in an in-hospital environment. A diagnosis-only, remote interrogation device and process for CIED interrogation was developed to address this situation. Here, we describe our initial clinical experience with this system.

Methods

The LATITUDE Consult Communicator is a stand-alone interrogation-only device used to read the patient's implanted CIED. Once retrieved, the data are securely transmitted via an analog phone line to a central server. The clinician can request a review of the transmitted data at any time. Following FDA approval, we determined the usage and performance of the system.

Results

Communicators (n = 53) were installed in 42 hospital facilities. The most

SUBMITTER: Mittal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4923098 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature