Follow-up appointments
Before you leave the hospital, your doctor will tell you if you need to
schedule a follow-up appointment. A follow-up appointment usually
takes the same amount of time as a regular doctor's appointment.
A follow-up appointment serves the following purposes:
• Assess your general medical condition
• Check the operation of your cardiac monitor
• Review the information saved by your cardiac monitor
• Adjust your cardiac monitor settings, if necessary
• Review instructions on using the Patient Assistant (see page 21)
Remote monitoring with the Medtronic CareLink
Service and MyCareLink Patient Monitor
The Medtronic CareLink Service is convenient. You do not have to leave
your home for most follow-up appointments. The service allows you to
send your cardiac monitor information over a cellular line to your clinic
at a time set up by your doctor, instead of visiting your clinic in person.
If the cardiac monitor information that is sent to your doctor indicates
The insertion procedure, recovery, and follow-up
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