Holter Monitoring of Critically-ill Childern in PICU at Sohag University Hospital

Holter Monitoring is a way to continuously check the electrical activity of the heart . Continuous ECG recording show to be one of the most effective noninvasive clinical tools in the diagnosis of cardiac symptoms prognostic assessment and in the evaluation of many cardiac therapeutic intervention. The clinical utility of ambulatory ECG lies in its ability to examine continuously a patient over an extended period of time, permitting patient ambulatory activity and facilitating the diurnal electrocardiographic examination of a patient in a changing environmental conditions (both physical and psychological) .