Cardiologists use information captured on them to determine diagnosis and develop a treatment plan. The recorders are typically used for patients with unexplained heart palpitations, sudden light-headedness, dizziness or fainting that are suspicious of irregular heart rhythms. It takes about 3-5 minutes to implant the heart monitor in the patient's chest in a low-risk procedure under local anaesthetic.
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ILRs are small heart monitoring devices implanted just under the skin in the chest. Those patients are being seen much sooner as are the patients needing an ILR," said Adrianne, who became certified to insert ILRs last year. "It's freeing up our theatres and cardiologists to concentrate on more specialist procedures such as pacemaker, ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator), CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator) implants and coronary angiography. And the benefits of the nurse-led initiative were recently recognised with a Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) award.
Properly certified nurses carrying out implantable loop recorder (ILR) procedures is commonplace in the UK but Adrianne Escondo has become the first Australasian nurse to do the same.Ĭardiac Catheter Laboratory (Cath Lab) nurse Adrianne has performed 20 of the procedures, which cardiologists traditionally perform in theatre. Photo / SuppliedĪn award-winning Australasian first at Tauranga Hospital is seeing faster access for patients needing long-term heart monitors implanted.
Cardiology clinical nurse manager Jason Money, cardiac nurse Adrianne Escondo and cardiac physiologist Tracey Cumming.
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