Setting up a heart monitor at home

Holter monitor for 24 or 48 hour use: instructions on how to set up and use

Hello.

Today I'm going to show you how to set up and use a Lifecard CF heart monitor at home.

Before you start, check your packet contains everything you need.

This will include:

• the monitor with a card slotted in
• a battery
• a back with leads
• 3 stickers
• an instruction sheet
• a diary card
• a pre-paid return postage bag

Firstly, ensure your child's chest is clean and dry from any creams, oils or moisturisers.

If the skin is slightly sweaty, you can lightly exfoliate the skin by rubbing it with a towel or a cloth.

This will prevent the stickers from peeling off.

Peel off the paper backing from the stickers.

One should go slightly to the right centre of the child's chest, left as you're looking at them.

And the other should go by the armpits on the left and right sides.

The blue tab should be pointing downwards.

Using the poppers, clip the red lead to the left sticker.

It should then go around like a traffic light with the yellow lead being clipped to the middle sticker and the green lead being clipped to the right sticker.

Using the catch, hook the lead back to the monitor and ensure that it has firmly clicked in place.

The monitor should then make a beep. The screen should turn on and then display ‘Space Labs Healthcare’, then '7 day'.

This is just the maximum time the monitor can record for.

Using the yellow button, scroll down to set up to ensure the time is correct.

You can adjust this by scrolling to the time, pressing the green button to select and then adjusting as necessary.

Press the green button when you're finished and the yellow button to scroll up to ‘Back’.

As your child is wearing a 24 or 48 hour monitor, scroll up and press ‘Start’.

At the speech recording prompt, scroll down and select ‘Continue’.

You should then see 3 ECG channels.

Scroll through the channels to ensure all have clear recordings.

Press the green button and select ‘START NOW’.

The monitor is now all set up and recording.

Returning the monitor to us using a pre-paid return postage bag

To help stop the spread of infection,please dispose of any used stickers and don't send these back to us.

Using a fully paid return postage bag, don't forget to include the diary card with the monitor, even if your child has had no symptoms.

Please take your pack to a post office the day that the recording is finished, as agreed with the physiology team.

We're extremely limited on monitors and failure to return the monitor on the agreed date results in cancellations and delays for other patients.

Thank you for watching.

Holter Eclipse Pro monitor: instructions on how to set up and use

Today I'm going to be going through the instructions of how to fit a Holter Eclipse Pro ambulatory ECG monitor.

Your pack contains contains everything you'll need to set up this monitor.

You should have:

• a monitor with 3 leads
• a set of 3 stickers plus a set to change every other day, if wearing a monitor for longer than 48 hours

An instruction sheet, a diary cardand a pre-paid return postage bag.

Firstly, ensure your child's chest is clean and dry from any creams, oils or moisturisers.

If the skin is slightly sweaty, you can lightly exfoliate the skin by rubbing it with a towel or a cloth.

This will prevent the stickers from peeling off.

Peel off the paper backing from the stickers.

One should go slightly to the right centre of the child's chest, left as you're looking at them.

And the others should go by the armpits on the left and right sides.

The blue tab should be pointing downwards.

Using the poppers, clip the red lead to the left sticker.

It should then go round like a traffic light with the yellow lead being clipped to the middle sticker and the green lead being clipped to the right sticker.

The screen of the monitor should be on and display ‘Ready to go’ at the top.

Using the right hand arrow button on the monitor select ‘OK’.

A lead check should display next.

All 3 circles on the screen should be green.

Select ‘OK’ again to proceed.

If any circles are flashing red, this indicates a poor connection.

Check that the stickers are attached properly and re-clean your child's skin if necessary.

The hook up page should display next where you should see 3 ECG channels.

Ensure all have clear recordings then select ‘OK’ again, the monitor should now say ‘Ready to start’ and should display your child's hospital ID and name.

Select ‘OK’ to start the recording.

The monitor should now start recording with the date and time below.

The monitor is now set up and recording.

Returning the monitor to us using a pre-paid return postage bag

To help stop the spread of infection, please dispose of any used stickers and don’t send these back to us.

Using a pre-paid return postage bag, don’t forget to include the diary card with the monitor, even if your child has had no symptoms.

Please take your pack to a Post Office the day the recording is finished, as agreed with the physiology team.

We are extremely limited on monitors, and failure to return the monitor on the agreed date results in cancellations and delays for other patients.

Thank you for watching.

Hello.

Today I'm going to tell you how to use a Tom Thumb heart monitor at home.

How to use thumbs only

Use this for short episodes that are hard to catch.

Turn the device on by pressing the orange button.

Press the start button to start the recording.

The red light will come on and the device will record for 30 seconds.

Place both thumbs on the pressure-sensitive pads, the 2 oval pads on either side of the grey base.

Try to remain as still as possible while making any recording.

And you can see that it's doing a recording there.

It's counting down from 30 again in the corner.

Perfect.

If you wish to take consecutive recordings, simply press the start button again.

Write in the diary once the recording has been taken.

Instructions on how to use electrodes or stickers, for longer or more frequent episodes

Turn the device on by pressing the orange button.

Attach 2 stickers - to the right wrist and to the left wrist.

The sticker might be placed anywhere on the forearm.

Connect the ECG wires into the 2 stickers.

Attach the red wire to the right wrist and the blue wire to the left wrist.

Connect the ECG wires into the side of the device.

These are labelled, nice and easy to remember.

So red for right, and it's got an ‘R’ on it, and blue for left, it's got a little ‘L’ on it.

That’s it.

And then the end plugs in the side here.

So if you have this at home or at school, you can get a teacher to help you set this up.

Alright, press the start button to start the recording.

The red light will come on and the device will record for 30 seconds.

Try to remain as still as possible while making any recording.

And that’s a lovely clear recording of your heart rate there.

Perfect.

If you wish to take consecutive recordings, simply press the start button again.

Write in the diary once the recording has been taken.

You must return the symptom diary card, even if blank.

Returning the monitor to us using a pre-paid return postage bag

To help stop the spread of infection, please dispose of any used stickers and don’t send these back to us.

Using a pre-paid return postage bag, don’t forget to include the diary card with the monitor, even if your child has had no symptoms.

Please take your pack to a Post Office the day the recording is finished, as agreed with the physiology team.

We are extremely limited on monitors, and failure to return the monitor on the agreed date results in cancellations and delays for other patients.

Thank you for watching.

Holter monitor: instructions on how to set up and use.

Today I'm going to be going through the instructions of how to fit a 72 hour or 7 day Holter monitor.

To start with, ensure your pack contains everything you'll need to get this monitor set up.

This will include:

• the monitor with a card slotted in
• a battery
• a back with leads
• a set of 3 stickers plus a set to change every other day, if wearing the monitor for longer than 48 hours
• an instruction sheet
• a diary card,
• a pre-paid return postage bag

Firstly, ensure your child's chest is clean and dry from any creams, oils or moisturisers.

If the skin is slightly sweaty, you can lightly exfoliate the skin by rubbing it with a towel or a cloth.

This will prevent the stickers from peeling off.

Peel off the paper backing from the stickers.

One should go slightly to the right centre of the child's chest, left as you're looking at them.

And the other should go by the armpits on the left and right sides.

The blue tab should be pointing downwards.

Using the poppers, clip the red lead to the left sticker.

It should then go around like a traffic light with the yellow lead being clipped to the middle sticker and the green lead being clipped to the right sticker.

Using the catch, hook the lead back to the monitor and ensure that it has firmly clicked in place.

The monitor should then make a beep. The screen should turn on and then display ‘Space Labs Healthcare’, then 7 day.

This is just the maximum time the monitor can record for.

Using the yellow button, scroll down to set up to ensure the time is correct.

You can adjust this by scrolling to the time, pressing the green button to select and then adjusting as necessary.

Press the green button when you're finished and the yellow button to scroll up to ‘Back’.

As your child is wearing a 72 hour or 7 day monitor, scroll up and press ‘Start Week’.

Ensure you press this, not just ‘Start...’ or the monitor will stop recording after 48 hours.

At the speech recording prompt, scroll down and select ‘Continue’.

You should then see 2 ECG channels.

Scroll through the channels to ensure both have clear recordings.

Press the green button and select ‘START NOW’.

The monitor is now all set up and recording.

Returning the monitor to us using a pre-paid return postage bag

To help stop the spread of infection, please dispose of any used stickers and don't send these back to us.

Using a fully paid return postage bag, don't forget to include the diary card with the monitor, even if your child has had no symptoms.

Please take your pack to a post office the day that the recording is finished, as agreed with the physiology team.

We're extremely limited onmonitors and failure to return the monitor on the agreed date results in cancellations and delays for other patients.

Thank you for watching.