Cardiac event recording is done to detect any potential heart problems. A holter monitor test is used to track the electrical pulses of the heart throughout a period of 24 hours. During this period, the patient goes about doing daily activities while the heart pulses are recorded via the electrodes on the body. Anytime the patient feels some sort of chest pain, shortness of breath or palpitations, they are to record what activity it at the time. Many people who must undergo event recording for the first time are worried that the holter monitor may send electricity into their body. This is a fear that would be understandable if it were real.

These monitors according to many radiologists have no serious risks associated with them. They cannot send electrical currents into the body since they only can be used to record any electrical impulses coming from the heart. It may look and sound very complex to a patient for the first time hearing about this. The simplest way to explain this to a patient is that it is really nothing more than a recorder that records the electric pulses of the heart and does nothing more. The only nuisance it may cause is some slight itchiness where the electrodes are, but once removed the problem is instantly gone.

The holter monitor is no threat to your body or your heart and the results will help determine the best actions to be taken to prevent any further problems or a condition from worsening. No ethical radiologist or physician of any sort would ever want to intentionally harm there patient.

The holter monitor is a safe machine used by radiologists throughout the nation.