BACKGROUND Inpatient telemetry heart rhythm monitoring overuse has been linked to higher healthcare costs.AIM To evaluate if CHA2DS2-VASc score could be used to indicate if a patient admitted with possible cerebrovasc...BACKGROUND Inpatient telemetry heart rhythm monitoring overuse has been linked to higher healthcare costs.AIM To evaluate if CHA2DS2-VASc score could be used to indicate if a patient admitted with possible cerebrovascular accident(CVA)or transient ischemic attack(TIA)requires inpatient telemetry monitoring.METHODS A total of 257 patients presenting with CVA or TIA and placed on telemetry monitoring were analyzed retrospectively.We investigated the utility of telemetry monitoring to diagnose atrial fibrillation/flutter and the CHA2DS2-VASc scoring tool to stratify the risk of having CVA/TIA in these patients.RESULTS In our study population,63(24.5%)of the patients with CVA/TIA and telemetry monitoring were determined to have no ischemic neurologic event.Of the 194(75.5)patients that had a confirmed CVA/TIA,only 6(2.3%)had an arrhythmia detected during their inpatient telemetry monitoring period.Individuals with a confirmed CVA/TIA had a statistically significant higher CHA2DS2-VASc score compared to individuals without an ischemic event(3.59 vs 2.61,P<0.001).CONCLUSION Given the low percentage of inpatient arrhythmias identified,further research should focus on discretionary use of inpatient telemetry on higher risk patients to diagnose the arrhythmias commonly leading to CVA/TIA.A prospective study assessing event rate of CVA/TIA in patients with higher CHA2DS2-VASc score should be performed to validate the CHA2DS2-VASc score as a possible risk stratifying tool for patients at risk for CVA/TIA.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND Inpatient telemetry heart rhythm monitoring overuse has been linked to higher healthcare costs.AIM To evaluate if CHA2DS2-VASc score could be used to indicate if a patient admitted with possible cerebrovascular accident(CVA)or transient ischemic attack(TIA)requires inpatient telemetry monitoring.METHODS A total of 257 patients presenting with CVA or TIA and placed on telemetry monitoring were analyzed retrospectively.We investigated the utility of telemetry monitoring to diagnose atrial fibrillation/flutter and the CHA2DS2-VASc scoring tool to stratify the risk of having CVA/TIA in these patients.RESULTS In our study population,63(24.5%)of the patients with CVA/TIA and telemetry monitoring were determined to have no ischemic neurologic event.Of the 194(75.5)patients that had a confirmed CVA/TIA,only 6(2.3%)had an arrhythmia detected during their inpatient telemetry monitoring period.Individuals with a confirmed CVA/TIA had a statistically significant higher CHA2DS2-VASc score compared to individuals without an ischemic event(3.59 vs 2.61,P<0.001).CONCLUSION Given the low percentage of inpatient arrhythmias identified,further research should focus on discretionary use of inpatient telemetry on higher risk patients to diagnose the arrhythmias commonly leading to CVA/TIA.A prospective study assessing event rate of CVA/TIA in patients with higher CHA2DS2-VASc score should be performed to validate the CHA2DS2-VASc score as a possible risk stratifying tool for patients at risk for CVA/TIA.