Use of Ambulatory Patch Monitoring Devices to Supplement Inpatient Telemetry-A Descriptive Study of a Single-center Experience During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT

To accommodate the surge in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 during the spring of 2020, outpatient areas in our health system were repurposed as inpatient units. These spaces often lacked the same resources as the standard inpatient unit, including telemetry equipment. We utilized mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry (MCOT) in place of traditional telemetry and suggest that MCOT is an appropriate substitution only for patients at low risk of developing arrhythmia given the prolonged time to notification of the care team regarding events and imprecise measurements of the corrected QT interval when compared to 12-lead electrocardiography.