MyCareLink Medtronic Questions

Hello, my mom had gotten a pacemaker implanted last Friday on the 23rd. Today she received a MyCareLink monitor from Medtronic, we set up the monitor and once the device beeped my mom claimed to have felt a tingle and suddenly warm inside and a little bit light headed. Is this something normal and did anyone else have the same feeling? Or should we unplug it and wait until we can talk to someone about it since the offices are closed now? 

 

Also, with this machine do they call you if your heart isn’t beating right? Or does the machine make an alarm noise to alert us, the directions are not very clear. Thank you all so much for your help and information! 

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by new to pace.... - 2024-08-31 05:47:01

Sorry to hear about that .  She does not have to be close to the monitor for her transmission. I do not know in theory when it is done. Sometime around midnight.  I have mine on the other side of my king sized bed. One of the gals has hers under her bed. I have a nightly transmission and then a quartly one so the doctor can get paid for reading the nightly transmissions.

Yes if there is a problem someone will contact you. 

You can go on the website and sign up to recieve text's or email as to when the quartely transmission has been done. 

I like to know what my pacemaker has done,so i contact the pacemaker clinic and ask for "log of events and summary".  Which translates the graphs which i find hard to read. Since i live close by do go an pick up that information and of course post on this site.

I also go in to the pacemaker clinic once a year for them to download all the informaion that had been transmitted and for them to check to make sure the leads and pacemaker are ok.Generally go in  about a year after the implant. and contine that way. 

new to pace

Need more information

by piglet22 - 2024-08-31 19:29:31

MyCareLink comes in several versions.

An older version for devices without Bluetooth. This has a chest reader which you place over the pacemaker.

The reader transmits data to a base unit then cellular to the data hub.

Newer devices transmit directly without the chest reader.

In either case it's very unlikely that plugging in the MCL has anything to do with your mother's reaction.

Bluetooth is everywhere and the power supply is no different to the dozens of others used in the average house these days.

Ask your clinicians if it persists.

Edit

UK practice in my trust at least is not to call you if there is nothing to report. Not a great idea.

I would add that Bluetooth devices, both old and new versions of MCL have BT in the transmission link, will initially pair and exchange information when first used. Quite possibly, this is done in the factory for the chest reader type, but maybe not for the BT pacemakers.

I wouldn't rule anything out, but if something suddenly feels warm, it could be drawing more current or some external source is radiating energy and heating leads or device.

Again, I would say very unlikely.

 

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