Comparison of Postoperative Continuous Wireless Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring with Traditional Telemetry in Cardiac Surgery Patients: the SMART-TEL Study.

Telemetry monitoring (conventional cardiac monitoring system [CCMS]) is a universal method for postoperative arrhythmia detection; however, the clinical challenge of alarm fatigue, primarily associated with noise or cable disconnections, persists. The introduction of wireless continuous cardiac monitoring (WCCM) represents a potential solution to enhance recording fidelity. Patients were simultaneously outfitted with both a monitoring device considered the standard of care and a novel adhesive wireless patch. A 48-h cardiac monitoring session with the two devices occurred after cardiac surgery in a unit equipped with a telemetry system. A total of 53 patients with a mean age of 60 ± 17 years were included in the trial. The number of events detected by the two systems was significantly different at 190 versus 174 for the CCMS and the WCCM system, respectively (

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