Medtronic Monitor Date Change

[Bellacheshire]

I had a ILR implanted on 4 December and have the Medtronic monitor in the bedroom. It is my understanding from discussion with the cardio nurse that each night the monitor will check my implantable device and only download if there is anything specific within the parameters set eg, bradycardia, AF etc. The date will only change on the monitor when it has downloaded something via blue tooth or if I manually download.

So my question is: if the date changes on the monitor that means that something has been recorded significant enough to download? So there was a gap from 20 Dec to 6 January and then the date has changed several times this month so far with the 16th, 18th and 19th being the last 3. I have to click the grey button to wake the machine and check the date

[Horse6]

my monitor changes the date everyday and I do a download when the clinic tells me about every 3 months. If I’m away for a few days it just catches up with the right day when I return .

[Bellacheshire in reply to Horse6]

Thank you

[L8Again]

There should be a data pull in the early hours of each day. If the pull was unsuccessful due to, say, your sleeping position the data is not lost. A data pull does not necessarily mean anything is amiss. The Medtronic software will analyse the data and alert clinicians if the set parameters have been breached.

FWiW, if you do need to go to hospital, the pacing team will do a manual data pull rather than rely on the received data.

My wife had a pacemaker fitted a month after her ILR. The ILR did its job. My biggest whinge is that the Medtronic monitor cannot be repurposed for other patients: we were told to put it into an electrical waste skip. What a waste of an expensive and working monitor.

[Bellacheshire in reply to L8Again]

That you that is very helpful and reassuring

[GCWhits]

I don't know the answer to your specific question, but I had the same device and on the odd occasion the monitor detected a significant issue, I got a phone call from the hospital the next day. Up to that point, I had never been sure the monitor was working at all.

[Bellacheshire in reply to GCWhits]

Thank you - that is helpful and reassuring 👍