远距离监测发现脑卒中患者的心脏疾病

根据一项最新研究发现，为了检测“沉默型”或者新发心脏疾病，所有因脑卒中入院的患者在脑卒中发病至少24小时以内，都应当接受持续心脏节律监测(远距测定法)。

与那些没有接受监测的患者相比较，接受远距离监测患者更容易发现心血管危险因素。除此之外，在入院后心脏节律出现改变的患者，比那些节律保持稳定的患者，更加容易发生冠状动脉疾病。在接受远距离心率监测的所有患者中，出现新节律的患者以前都没有心率不齐病史。因此研究人员建议，在入院之后所有的患者都应当接受监测。这些研究结果发表在2006年2月Kissimmee(Florida, USA)举行的美国脑卒中学会国际会上进行了报道。

Telemetry Reveals Stroke Patients’ Cardiac Problems
 
To detect “silent” or new cardiac abnormalities, all patients hospitalized for stroke should be under continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring (telemetry) for at least the first 24 hours after the stroke is detected, according to a new study.

Cardiovascular risk factors were discovered more frequently in the patients placed on telemetry as compared to those who were not monitored. In addition, patients whose cardiac rhythms changed following admission had a higher percentage of coronary artery disease than those whose rhythms remained static. All patients found to have a new rhythm following telemetry monitoring had no previous history of arrhythmia. The authors therefore suggest that upon admission to the hospital, all patients should be monitored. The findings were presented at the American Stroke Association's international conference, held in February 2006 in Kissimmee (Florida, USA).