Sure! Here’s a 7th-grade level explanation of the holter monitor findings:
What the Holter Monitor Found:
The patient wore a special heart monitor called a Holter monitor for about 72 hours. This monitor keeps track of the heart's beats all the time.
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Total Time Monitored: The patient was monitored for 72 hours and 11 minutes. But the doctors looked carefully at the data for 69 hours and 38 minutes.
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Heart Beats: During that time, the patient’s heart beat a total of 282,537 times.
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Heart Rate:
- The average (mean) heart rate was 68 beats per minute (bpm).
- The highest heart rate was 113 bpm, which is a bit fast, at 5:45 PM.
- The lowest heart rate was 52 bpm at 12:49 PM, which is on the slower side.
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Types of Beats:
- The monitor showed that there were very few special beats (called ventricular and supraventricular beats), both of which were less than 1%.
- There were no beats that were too slow (which would be bradycardia) or too fast (tachycardia) for long periods.
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Pauses and Rhythms:
- The heart did not have any long pauses (none over 2.5 seconds).
- A "normal" heart rhythm was seen most of the time, which is called sinus rhythm.
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Other Findings:
- There were rare early beats (called PACs), and these didn't happen in pairs. The longest run of these was 6 beats at a rate of 130 bpm.
- There were also very few late beats (called PVCs), with one instance of 7 beats at 125 bpm.
- The patient wrote down one event in their diary, and it was recorded as a normal rhythm.
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Conclusion: Overall, the heart rhythm was mostly normal, but there were some rare instances of unusual beats.
This means the patient’s heart is mostly healthy, but the doctors will keep an eye on those rare beats to make sure everything stays good!