How to prioritize which patients should be monitored with ECG?

Continuous ECG monitoring is currently applied in a variety of critical and non-critical care hospital settings. While early monitoring focused on heart rate measurement and fatal arrhythmia detection in acutely-ill cardiac patients, current ECG monitoring has expanded to include diagnoses of complex arrhythmias, acute myocardial ischemia, and (pharmacologically-induced) prolonged QT intervals in real time in several areas of the hospital. Thus, the clinical recommendations for using continuous ECG monitoring are a critical issue in daily clinical practice.  In this podcast, Dr. Nicola Cosentino provides a quick update for recommendations for continuous ECG monitoring of hospitalized patients, addressing its appropriate use in different clinical settings. In particular, a simple, but systematic, approach focusing on how to prioritize when dealing with continuous ECG monitoring is here provided.