Hauck, Christian and Schober, Andreas and Schober, Alexander and Fredersdorf, Sabine and Hubauer, Ute and Maier, Lars and Keyser, Andreas and Huttelmaier, Moritz and Fischer, Thomas and Jungbauer, Carsten and Uecer, Ekrem (2022) Ventricular arrhythmia burden in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator and remote patient monitoring during different time intervals of the COVID-19 pandemic. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, 27 (1): 234. ISSN 0949-2321, 2047-783X
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Purpose The current study investigated whether the changes in patient care in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the reduction of in-person visits, would result in a deterioration of the arrhythmic and clinical condition of patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and remote patient monitoring. Methods Data were obtained from a local ICD registry. 140 patients who received ICD implantation at our department and had remote patient monitoring were included. The number of patients with ventricular arrhythmias, appropriate ICD therapy, the number of visits to our outpatient clinic and hospitalization due to acute coronary syndrome, stroke or heart failure were compared during three time intervals of the COVID-19 pandemic (first (LD1) and second (LD2) national lockdown in Germany and the time after the first lockdown (postLD1)) and a time interval 1 year before the pandemic began (preCOV). Each time interval was 49 days long. Results Patients had significantly fewer visits to our outpatient clinic during LD1 (n = 13), postLD1 (n = 22) and LD2 (n = 23) compared to the time interval before the pandemic (n = 43, each p <= 0.05). The number of patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias, appropriate ICD therapy and clinical events showed no significant difference during the time intervals of the COVID-19 pandemic and the time interval 1 year prior. Conclusions The lockdown measures necessary to reduce the risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic, led to a reduction of in-person patient visits, but did not result in a deterioration of the arrhythmic and clinical condition of ICD patients with remote patient monitoring.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ANTIARRHYTHMIC-DRUG THERAPY; DEVICE FOLLOW-UP; TRIAL; COVID-19; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Remote patient monitoring; Arrhythmia |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Herz-, Thorax- und herznahe Gefäßchirurgie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin II |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2024 07:21 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2024 07:21 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/57264 |
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