24-hour Holter monitoring, also called ambulatory electrocardiography, is a test to record electrical activity of heart that goes on continuously for 24 Hrs or longer. This is a portable electrocardiogram (ECG) that is a battery operated device patients have to wear. The whole point of using a Holter monitoring is to check the efficiency of the pacemaker.
The wires connect to electrodes attached to the patient’s chest that record heart’s activity through the Holter monitor. The 24 Hour Holter monitoring cost in India around remains approximately US $60 for one patient, and in one day in a hospital.
